Tamil Nadu : 31-member Palaniswamy Ministry to take oath
According to The Hindu, all members of outgoing Cabinet except Panneerselvam and Ma Foi K. Pandiarajan have been retained.
Dindigul Srinivasan will be number two in seniority in the new Cabinet. Sengottaiyan is ranked No 3.
The Government, third in two months, will be formed following an invitation by Governor C Vidyasagar Rao to Palaniswamy, a protege of AIADMK Secretary General VK Sasikala, who is now in jail.
Palaniswamy has to go through a confidence vote in the Assembly in the next 15 days to prove majority.
According to The Hindu, the new Ministers and their portfolios are :
Edappadi K. Palaniswami - Home, Finance, PWD, Irrigation, Highways, Public, Elections, Personnel
Dindigul Srinivasan - Forest
Sengottaiyan - School Education - He is the new minister. He is replacing MaFoi K. Pandiarajan.
O.S. Manian - Handlooms
Sellur Raju - Cooperation
C Vijaya Baskar - Health
D Jayakumar - Fisheries
M C Sampath - Industries
Karupannan - Environment
Thangamani - Electricity
Velumani - Municipal Administration
C.Ve Shanmugham - Law
K.P. Anbazhagan - Higher Education
Kamaraj - Food and Civil Supplies
V. Saroja - Social Welfare
K. Radhakrishnan - Housing and Urban Development
Duraikannu- Agriculture
Kadambur Raju - Information and Publicity
R.B. Udhayakumar - Revenue
Natarajan - Tourism
K.C. Veeramani - Commercial Taxes
K.T. Rajendra Balaji - Milk and Dairy Development
P.Benjamin -Minister for Rural Industries
Dr Nilofer Kafeel - Minister for Labour
M.R.Vijayabhaskar -Minister for Transport
Dr. M. Manikandan - Minister for Information Technology
V.M. Rajalakshmi - Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare
G. Baskaran - Minister for Khadi and Village Industries Board
Sevvoor S. Ramachandran - Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
S.Valarmathi - Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare
P. Balakrishna Reddy - Minister for Animal Husbandry
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