31-member Palaniswami cabinet to be sworn-in at 4.30pm

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao on Thursday approved the recommendations of chief minister-designate Edappadi K Palaniswami and appointed a 31-member cabinet. The swearing-in ceremony will be held at Raj Bhavan at 4.30pm today.

Palaniswami gets the portfolios of public, police, home, finance, PWD, highways and minor ports and personnel and administrative reforms.

Party presidium chairman K A Sengottaiyan will be the only new face in Palaniswami’s cabinet. Sengottaiyan has replaced K Pandiarajan who was the schools education minister in the Panneerselvam cabinet. Pandiarajan is the only minister who joined the O Panneerselvam camp after war broke out between OPS and party general secretary V K Sasikala.


The others ministers have retained the same portfolios.

C Sreenivasan (forests), Sellur K Raju (cooperation), P Thangamani (electricity, prohibition and excise), S P Velumani (municipal administration \), D Jayakumar (fisheries), C Ve Shanmugam (law, court and prisons), K P Anbazhagan (higher education), V Saroja (Social Welfare), M C Sampath (Industries), K C Karuppanan (environment), R Kamaraj (food and civil supplies), O S Manian (handlooms and textiles), K Radhakrishnan (housing and urban development), C Vijaya Baskar (health and family welfare), R Doraikkannu (agriculture), Kadambur Raju (information and publicity), R B Udhyakumar (revenue), N Natarjan (tourism), K C Veeramani (commercial taxes), K T Rajenthra Bhalaji (milk and dairy development), P Benjamin (rural industries), Nilofer Kafeel (labour), M R Vijayabaskar (transport),M Manikandan (information and technology ), V M Rajalakshmi (adi dravidar and tribal welfare), G Baskaran (khadi and village industries board), S Ramachandran (Hindu religious and charitable endowments), S Valarmathi (backward classes and minorities welfare) and P Balakrishna Reddy (animal husbandry).