31-member Palaniswamy Ministry takes oath in Tamil Nadu
He was being administered oath of office and secrecy by the Tamil Nadu Governor, Vidyasagar Rao.
Except O. Panneerselvam and Ma Foi K. Pandiarajan,Palaniswamy retained the outgoing Council of Ministers.
Palaniswamy has been given 15 days to prove his majority.
He took over as the leader of AIADMK Legislature Party from VK Sasikala, on Tuesday, after she was convicted in a corruption case and ordered to be imprisoned for four years.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu Governor Vidyasagar Rao invited Palaniswamy to form the government and gave him two weeks to prove his majority in the Assembly.
The oath-taking ceremony marked the end of a 10-day long political turmoil in Tamil Nadu.
The state had plunged into political crisis after O Paneerselvam resigned as the CM. A day later, he claimed that he was humiliated and forced to resign. While the Governor accepted his resignation, he was asked to continue as the caretaker CM.
Around 124 MLAs, led by Palaniswamy are stated to be the members of the camp belonging to VK Sasikala, who had months of tussle with Paneerselvam for the post of Chief Minister before being convicted and jailed.
PalaniswamY virtually makes a windfall gain that emerged out of the prolonged conflict between the two camps of the ruling AIADMK and the unexpected turns and twists of events.
After Sasikala was sentenced to jail, Palaniswamy,57, was elected Leaders of the Legislature party of the AIADMK.
Acting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Panneerselvam had also met the Governor, but he does not have numbers on his side.
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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