Hyderabad plastered with posters of Revanth Reddy ahead of his swearing-in as Telangana CM

Reddy will become the first Congress chief minister of the state that was created in 2014. He led his party to victory over the incumbent Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) in the recent assembly polls where the the Congress won 64 seats out of 119 as against the BRS's 39. In June 2021, Revanth Reddy was appointed as president of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee replacing N Uttam Kumar Reddy. Congress won an absolute majority in Telangana for the first time, winning 64 of 119 seats.