DMK president MK Stalin on Friday took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the primary time. His swearing-in ceremony was held at Raj Bhavan in Chennai. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Stalin and his Cabinet ministers.
The DMK received 133 seats within the April 6 Assembly polls and together with allies, together with Congress, garnered a complete of 159 constituencies within the 234-member Assembly. The AIADMK received 66 segments and its companions BJP and PMK, 4 and 5 seats respectively.
The Governor on Wednesday appointed Stalin as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and invited him to type the federal government after he staked declare, submitting a letter on his election as legislature celebration chief.
Ahead of the swearing-in Stalin’s Cabinet of 34 members, together with him, obtained the approval of the governor on Thursday. While the DMK chief has retained senior leaders like Duraimurugan, 15 members shall be ministers for the primary time.
Stalin shall maintain Home and different portfolios together with public, basic administration, all India providers, district income officers, particular programme implementation and welfare of otherwise abled individuals, a Raj Bhavan launch stated. Stalin stated the names of sure departments have been rechristened. It consists of agriculture division which shall now be agriculture and farmers welfare.
Party veteran and basic secretary Duraimurugan, who had held portfolios like Public Works through the earlier DMK rule (2006-11), could be Minister for Water Resources answerable for irrigation initiatives and others together with mines and minerals. Duraimurugan is amongst 18 former Ministers who’ve been inducted within the Cabinet.
Former Chennai Mayor Ma Subramanian and celebration’s north Chennai strongman, P Okay Sekarbabu are among the many 15 who could be first time Ministers. Subramanian and Sekarbabu have been allotted the departments of Health and Family Welfare and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments respectively.
Palanivel Thiagarajan, a former funding banker, has been allotted Finance and Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi School Education division. Thiagarajan and Poyyamozhi could be ministers for first time and belong to distinguished households that spearheaded the Dravidian motion in Tamil Nadu and likewise labored for the DMK for lengthy.
The cupboard has two girls ministers, P Geetha Jeevan, a former minister, who has been given social welfare and girls empowerment and N Kayalvizhi Selvaraj who has been designated Minister for Adi Dravidar Welfare. Selvaraj, who will probably be a primary time minister, had trounced BJP Tamil Nadu unit chief L Murugan from Dharapuram constituency.
V Senthil Balaji, who was a transport minister between 2011 and 2015 through the earlier AIADMK rule led by J Jayalalithaa and who joined the DMK in 2018, has been given the electrical energy division and portfolios of prohibition and excise. Tiruchirappalli primarily based celebration strongman and former Minister, Okay N Nehru has been named Minister for Municipal Administration, a division dealt with by Stalin through the celebration’s earlier tenure. KKSSR Ramachandran, one other veteran and former Minister, could be the Revenue Minister.
I Periyasamy, who was Revenue Minister in his earlier stint in authorities, has been designated Minister for Cooperation. Okay Ponmudi has obtained again the upper training division he had held throughout 2006-11. Tiruvannamalai’s celebration heavyweight, E V Velu, who was Food Minister beforehand, has been named Minister for Public Works. M R Okay Panneerselvam, additionally a former Minister, would now be Minister for Agriculture and Welfare of Farmers.
Thangam Thennarasu, additionally former Minister, and S Reghupathy, former union mininster of state for surroundings, could be ministers for industries and regulation respectively. Okay R Periakaruppan, T M Anbarasan, M P Saminathan, all former Ministers, have additionally been named ministers and allotted the departments of Rural Developement, Rural Industries and Information and Publicity. Okay Ramachandran, a former Minister, has been given forests division.
S Muthusamy (Housing), Anita R Radhakrishnan (Fisheries) and S R Rajakannappan (Transport) are among the many others who type a part of the 34-member Cabinet. C V Ganesan (Labour), T Mano Thangaraj (Information Technology), M Mathiventhan (Tourism) are among the many first time Ministers.
R Sakkarapani (Food), R Gandhi (Handlooms and Textiles), P Moorthy (Commercial Taxes), S S Sivasankar (Backward Classes Welfare), Siva V Meyyanathan (Environment), Gingee Okay S Masthan (Minorities Welfare) and S M Nasar (Dairy) are additionally first-timers. Years in the past, KKSSR Ramachandran, S Reghupathy, S Muthusamy, S R Rajakannappan, Anita R Radhakrishnan, V Senthil Balaji and P Okay Sekarbabu had all been with the AIADMK.
Barring Sekarbabu, others had additionally served as ministers within the AIADMK authorities. Ramachandran had been a Minister through the DMK rule (2006-11) as effectively.
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