AIADMK Legislature Party Leader Edappadi K Palaniswami will retain most of the ministers from outgoing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam’s Cabinet in his 31-member ministry.

Sasikala loyalist Palaniswami is all set to be the new Chief Minister as Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao invited him today to form the government.

The 31-member state Cabinet will be sworn-in at 4.30 pm.

Among others, Palaniswami will hold the portfolios of Home and Finance, besides Public Works, Highways and Minor Ports, which he had managed as a minister in the Jayalalithaa and Panneerselvam Cabinets, sources said.

K A Sengottaiyan, recently elevated as AIADMK Presidium Chairman, following the sacking of E Madhusudanan, also made his comeback into the AIADMK Cabinet.

Originally included in her Cabinet in 2011, Jayalalithaa had dismissed Sengottaiyan the very next year and he could never make a comeback.