Lokesh, who is Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, took charge of his chamber in the State Secretariat.

Lokesh, who is also the general secretary of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), assumed charge after offering puja.

He signed the first file related to the Mega District Selection Committee (DSC) notification for the recruitment of 16,347 teachers. The file related to the methods of recruitment will be presented in the state cabinet meeting.

Before this, the priests and officials gave a warm welcome to Lokesh.

Cabinet colleagues, MLAs, TDP leaders and senior officials congratulated Lokesh on assuming charge.

On this occasion Minister V. Anita, G. Sandhya Rani, Savita, TDP state president Palla Srinivas Rao and others were present.

Lokesh had taken oath along with the Chief Minister and other ministers on June 12.

The 41-year-old, who has an MBA from Stanford University, was elected from Mangalagiri constituency in Guntur district. He has become MLA for the first time. He had lost from the same constituency in 2019.

In 2017, Lokesh was elected to the Legislative Council and served as the Minister of Information Technology and Rural Development in the cabinet headed by his father.

This time, even before assuming charge, he has started working on an action plan to bring radical changes in the education sector.

He is holding review meetings with senior officials of the education department.

He is planning to hold a meeting with the leaders of various student unions and parent organizations to know the problems prevailing in the education sector for a long time and find solutions to these problems.