Palaniswami sworn as the Chief Minister of Tamil Badu. He is the third minister of the state in less than three months.
Ending the ten day political drama in Tamil Nadu Governor ‘C Vidayasagar Rao’ invited the AIADMK's leader of Legislature Party and Works Minister Edapadi K Palaniswami to form the next government of the state.
Palaniswami met Governor Rao with five other senior AIADMK leaders today morning. He was given 15 days to prove his majority in the Assembly. The invitation to VK Sasikala loyalist to form the next government also marked the end of the ambitious bid caretaker Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.
On Wednesday (Feb 15) evening, Palaniswami met Governor Rao and submitted a list of total 124 MLAs supporting him in the 234-member Tamil Nadu Assembly, and requested the Governor to invite him to form the government.
The crisis in the state Tamil Nadu begun after the death of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on December 5th last year that triggered a massive succession war within the ruling government AIADMK.
The ministers and their portfolios are as below:
|
Name |
Designation |
|
K Palaniswami |
Chief Minister |
|
C Sreenivasan |
Minister of Forests |
|
KA Sengottaiyan |
Minister for School Education & Sports and Youth Welfare |
|
K Raju |
Minister for Cooperation |
|
P Thangamani |
Ministry for Electricity, Prohibition and Excise |
|
SP Velumani |
Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development, Implementation of Special Programme |
|
D Jayakumar |
Minister for Fisheries |
|
CV Shanmugam |
Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons |
|
KP Anbalagan |
Minister for Higher Education |
|
V Saroja |
Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme |
|
MC Sampath |
Minister for Industries |
|
KC Karuppanan |
Minister for Environment |
|
R Kamaraj |
Minister for Food & Civil Supplies |
|
OS Manjan |
Minister for Handlooms and Textiles |
|
K Radhakrishnan |
Minister for Housing and Urban Development |
|
Dr C Vijaya Baskar |
Minister for Health and Family Welfare |
|
R Doraikkantu |
Minister for Agriculture |
|
Kadambur Raju |
Minister for Information and Publicity |
|
RB Udhaykumar |
Minister for Revenue |
|
N Natarajan |
Minister for Tourism |
|
KC Veeramani |
Minister for Commercial Taxes |
|
KT Rajenthra Bhalaji |
Minister for Milk and Dairy Development |
|
P Benjamin |
Minister for Rural Industries |
|
Dr Nilofer Kafeel |
Minister for Labour |
|
MR Vijayabaskar |
Minister for Transport |
|
M Manikandan |
Minister for Information Technology |
|
VM Rajalakshmi |
Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare |
|
G Baskaran |
Minister for Khadi and Village Industries Board |
|
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 |
