There were a few surprises when Rajasekhara Reddy allocated portfolios to all the 35 members of his Council of Ministers. Sabitha is a three-times legislator and has served as the Mines and Geology Minister in the earlier government.

Incidentally, Sabita's husband P. Indra Reddy was also Home Minister in the N T Rama Rao Cabinet in 2004. After the death of Rama Rao, Indra Reddy joined Congress and won as Congress MLA in 1999. But he died in a road accident in 2001. Though the then Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu persuaded Sabitha to join TDP, she remained with Congress and won in the bye-elections caused due to death of her husband. Since then, she has been a Rajasekhara Reddy loyalist.

Dharmana Prasada Rao (Revenue), N. Raghuveera Reddy (Agriculture), Ponnala Lakshmaiah (Major and Medium Irrigation), Pilli Subash Chandra Bose (Social Welfare) and M. Mukesh Goud (BC Welfare) retained the portfolios they had held in the previous government.

Other Ministers to get key portfolios are: D Sridhar Babu (Higher Education), Jupally Krishna Rao (Civil Supplies), R Venkat Reddy (Cooperation), S Vijayarama Raju (Transport), Vatti Vasant Kumar (Rural Development), Kanna Lakshminarayana (Major Industries), A Ramnarayana Reddy (Municipal Administration), Md Ahmadullah Syed (Primary Education), C Shilpa Mohan Reddy (Housing) and Galla Aruna Kumari (Roads and Buildings).

Women have been given a sizeable share of the important portfolios with J Geeta Reddy getting Information & Public Relations and Tourism, G Aruna Kumari (Roads & Buildings), V Sunitha Lakshma Reddy (Minor Irrigation) and Small-Scale Industries D. K. Aruna. Women & Child Welfare portfolio, which is usually allotted to a female member in the Cabinet, has gone to Konda Surekha.