Jailed Sasikala’s proxy Palaniswamy sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu along with 30 of his ministers are sworn in by the Tamil Nadu Governor Shri Vidyasagar Rao.
"The Governor has today appointed Edappadi K Palanisami, Party Headquarters Secretary of AIADMK as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and invited him to form the ministry at the earliest," a Raj Bhavan release said.
Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao had asked Palanisami, the AIADMK Legislature Party Leader, to seek a vote of confidence in the assembly within 15 days.
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 |
