Record of sorts: Andhra Pradesh guv has administered oath to 5 CMs in 9 yrs

The most recent one was for Jagan Mohan Reddy, whose party won a majority of the seats in the Andhra Pradesh assembly

A record of sorts

Ekkadu Srinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan, governor of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, holds a unique record. He is the only governor to have administered oath to five chief ministers in nine years — a strike rate of one every other year. After he took over as governor of Andhra Pradesh, he administrated his first oath of office to Kiran Kumar Reddy of the Congress and then to Chandrababu Naidu. Then in 2015 when Andhra Pradesh was divided and Telangana carved out, he administrated oath to its first chief minister, K Chandrasekar Rao (KCR). He re-administered oath to KCR last