Telangana, the 29th State of Indian Union, will be formally inaugurated at an impressive ceremony at Secunderabad Parade Grounds on June 2. The celebrations will start at 6:30 in the morning where the State police, special police and armed reserved battalions will present a Guard of Honour.

Hyderabad city police Commissioner Anurag Sharma and other top civil and police officials inspected the preparations and the security arrangements made at the sprawling grounds on Friday.KCR will take oath as the first Chief Minister of Telangana in the morning and will unfurl the National Flag.State Governor ESl Narasimha has already extended a formal invitation to Chandrashekar Rao to form the Government. KCR, who has already been elected as the leader of TRS legislature Party, will be administered oath of office and secrecy by the Governor at a ceremony in Raj Bhavan at 8:15 am. Senior party leaders E Rajinder, Jupalli Krishna Rao, KCR’s son Taraka Rama Rao, and nephew T Harish Rao are also expected to take oath as Ministers.

KCR will start the day with a visit to the Telangana Martyrs memorial to lay a wreath. After taking oath, KCR will go to the secretariat to take charge and then go to the Parade Grounds.

Meanwhile, a logo for the State has been finalised by KCR and it has been sent to the Governor for his approval. The logo has two famous monuments of Telangana, Kakatiya arch and Charminar with Government of Telangana written in English, Telugu and Urdu. The green color logo has been designed by Telangana artist Aelay laxman.

While Kakatiya arch represents the powerful Kakatiya dynasty which ruled between 12 and 14th century, the 16th century monument Charminar is the symbol of Qutub Shahi dynasty, which ruled over Golconda and founded Hyderabad. Below the circular logo ‘Satyameva Jayathe’ is written. National emblem ‘Sarnath Pillar lions’ is centre aligned on the top.

The demand for inclusion of Charminar in the logo was made by MIM but opposed by the BJP.