: Newly-elected Congress MLAs and MLCs in Telangana Thursday unanimously resolved to urge party president Rahul Gandhi to nominate their leader.
The meeting was attended by AICC representative K C Venugopal, who spoke to party MLAs, MLCs and MPs on the matter.
Venugopal said he would convey the legislators' views to Gandhi, who would take a decision as early as possible.
"We took a unanimous resolution authorising the Congress president to nominate the new CLP (Congress legislature Party) leader of Telangana," he said.
Congress won 19 seats in the 119-member house in the December 7 assembly elections.
Meanwhile, the first session of the assembly after the polls began here Thursday with the newly elected members taking oath as MLAs.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was the first to take oath.
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