Why Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao fired his health minister
updated: May 13 2021, 05:05 ist Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s decision to drop Health Minister Eatala Rajender from his cabinet came at a time when the state was breaking previous records in daily new Covid-19 cases, registering upwards of 8,000 cases. While ambulances with gasping patients hurried towards hospitals, the frightened public queued up at the inoculation centres where vaccines are in short supply. The expulsion might seem to be a result of the health minister’s mismanagement of the Covid-19 situation in the state. Except that it had nothing to do with it. Eat...