Nearly nine months before its term was to end, the Telangana Assembly was on Thursday dissolved by the Governor on a recommendation by the state cabinet. Governor E S L Narasimhan accepted a resolution of the cabinet recommending dissolution of the Assembly.

He asked Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and his council of ministers to continue in office as caretaker government. Ending the suspense, the state cabinet passed a resolution for dissolution of the Assembly at the meeting held at Pragati Bhavan. Immediately after the cabinet meet that lasted for less than half-an-hour, KCR, as the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief is popularly known, drove to Raj Bhavan to meet the governor.