Edappadi Palaniswami ministry takes oath in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: Edappadi K Palaniswami was sworn in as the 13th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Thursday by Governor C Vidyasagar Rao.
Palaniswami took oath first, followed by 30 ministers in four batches. The swearing in ceremony was held at Raj Bhavan around 4.30pm.
This is the third ministry in the last 10 months since AIADMK won the assembly election in May 2016.
Almost simultaneously, police protection given to O Panneerselvam at his official residence was withdrawn. The chief minister's emblem and beacon on his car (TN 04 AX 2345) were removed.
Ministers and portfolios
Palaniswami has kept the portfolios of public, police, home, finance, PWD, highways and minor ports and personnel and administrative reforms.
Party presidium chairman K A Sengottaiyan is the only new face in Palaniswami's cabinet. Sengottaiyan has replaced K Pandiarajan who was the schools education minister in the Panneerselvam cabinet. Pandiarajan is the only minister who joined the O Panneerselvam camp after war broke out between OPS and party general secretary V K Sasikala.
The others ministers have retained the same portfolios:
C Sreenivasan (forests), Sellur K Raju (cooperation), P Thangamani (electricity, prohibition and excise), S P Velumani (municipal administration \), D Jayakumar (fisheries), C Ve Shanmugam (law, court and prisons), K P Anbazhagan (higher education), V Saroja (Social Welfare), M C Sampath (Industries), K C Karuppanan (environment), R Kamaraj (food and civil supplies), O S Manian (handlooms and textiles), K Radhakrishnan (housing and urban development), C Vijaya Baskar (health and family welfare), R Doraikkannu (agriculture), Kadambur Raju (information and publicity), R B Udhyakumar (revenue), N Natarjan (tourism), K C Veeramani (commercial taxes), K T Rajenthra Bhalaji (milk and dairy development), P Benjamin (rural industries), Nilofer Kafeel (labour), M R Vijayabaskar (transport),M Manikandan (information and technology ), V M Rajalakshmi (adi dravidar and tribal welfare), G Baskaran (khadi and village industries board), S Ramachandran (Hindu religious and charitable endowments), S Valarmathi (backward classes and minorities welfare) and P Balakrishna Reddy (animal husbandry).
Palaniswami took oath first, followed by 30 ministers in four batches. The swearing in ceremony was held at Raj Bhavan around 4.30pm.
This is the third ministry in the last 10 months since AIADMK won the assembly election in May 2016.
Almost simultaneously, police protection given to O Panneerselvam at his official residence was withdrawn. The chief minister's emblem and beacon on his car (TN 04 AX 2345) were removed.
Ministers and portfolios
Palaniswami has kept the portfolios of public, police, home, finance, PWD, highways and minor ports and personnel and administrative reforms.
Party presidium chairman K A Sengottaiyan is the only new face in Palaniswami's cabinet. Sengottaiyan has replaced K Pandiarajan who was the schools education minister in the Panneerselvam cabinet. Pandiarajan is the only minister who joined the O Panneerselvam camp after war broke out between OPS and party general secretary V K Sasikala.
The others ministers have retained the same portfolios:
C Sreenivasan (forests), Sellur K Raju (cooperation), P Thangamani (electricity, prohibition and excise), S P Velumani (municipal administration \), D Jayakumar (fisheries), C Ve Shanmugam (law, court and prisons), K P Anbazhagan (higher education), V Saroja (Social Welfare), M C Sampath (Industries), K C Karuppanan (environment), R Kamaraj (food and civil supplies), O S Manian (handlooms and textiles), K Radhakrishnan (housing and urban development), C Vijaya Baskar (health and family welfare), R Doraikkannu (agriculture), Kadambur Raju (information and publicity), R B Udhyakumar (revenue), N Natarjan (tourism), K C Veeramani (commercial taxes), K T Rajenthra Bhalaji (milk and dairy development), P Benjamin (rural industries), Nilofer Kafeel (labour), M R Vijayabaskar (transport),M Manikandan (information and technology ), V M Rajalakshmi (adi dravidar and tribal welfare), G Baskaran (khadi and village industries board), S Ramachandran (Hindu religious and charitable endowments), S Valarmathi (backward classes and minorities welfare) and P Balakrishna Reddy (animal husbandry).
