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