Revanth gets Governor to drop Konda Surekha after she refuses to resign

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy ended Konda Surekha’s Cabinet tenure on 3 September 2026 without waiting for her resignation. He recommended to Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla that she be removed; the Governor’s office said she was dropped with immediate effect on the Chief Minister’s advice after a meeting at Lok Bhavan. Surekha had refused to resign.

The same political sweep hit G. Chinna Reddy. His appointment as Vice-Chairman of the Telangana Planning Board was rescinded. Officials tied the move to indiscipline and to deliberations with the party’s Delhi high command. The locked record does not publish the minutes of those Delhi talks; it records the rescission and the stated grounds.

The immediate trigger, as locked, was comments by Surekha’s daughter Sushmitha against the Chief Minister. Surekha met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday without receiving an assurance that would have kept her in the Cabinet. Refusal to resign then met the constitutional route: Chief Minister’s advice, Governor’s order, immediate effect.

The government filled the vacancy space with a set of appointments that also read as social arithmetic. Gadwal Vijayalakshmi, a BC leader from the Munnuru Kapu community, was named Vice-Chairperson of the Planning Board with Cabinet rank. Nerella Sharada, from the Goud community, was named Chairperson of the State Women Commission. G. Sudha Rani, from the Padmashali community and from Warangal — the same district as Surekha — was named Chairperson of the Kakatiya Urban Development Authority. Those names and community tags are part of the locked public appointments list.

What the facts do not establish is the full text of Sushmitha’s comments, any show-cause reply from Surekha, or a detailed high-command note. This cutting does not invent them. Established: CM recommendation; Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla’s immediate drop; Surekha’s refusal to resign; Chinna Reddy’s Planning Board rescission; the Sushmitha comments as the stem; the Wednesday Kharge meeting without assurance; and the three appointments named above.

Cabinet removals in a Congress state government are never only personal. They signal how far a Chief Minister will go when a minister’s family speech becomes a high-command problem, and how quickly community representation is rearranged in the same announcement. Surekha’s exit and the Warangal KUDA chair landing in the same district’s Padmashali leadership are both on the 3 September record. Readers should hold the removal as done, and hold the family-comments cause as the government’s locked narrative, not as an independent forensic finding of this desk.