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CHENNAI: The DMK’s sixth government and MK Stalin’s first cabinet comprises a perfect mix of seniors, who served as ministers in former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s cabinet, and first-timers. Former Chennai mayor Ma Subramanian will be the Health Minister at a time when the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be intensifying in the state.
Here are the cabinet members and their portfolis:
1. M K Stalin: Chief Minister Public, General Administration, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Other All India Service, District Revenue Officers, Police, Home, Special Initiatives, Special Programme Implementation, Welfare of Differently abled persons.
MK Stalin announces his new Cabinet of Ministers:- DMK dethroned AIADMK in the recent Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu. DMK Chief MK Stalin will take the oath as the Chief Minister of the state on Friday and he announced the list of 33 ministers of his new cabinet. MK Stalin announced the list of Ministers along with their portfolios today. Governor Banwarilal Purohit approved all the recommendations of Stalin. Here are the list of Ministers:
MK Stalin - Public, General Administration, Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Other All India Service, District Revenue Officers, Police, Home, Special Initiatives, Special Programme Implementation, Welfare of Differently abled persons.
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Ma Subramanian given charge of fighting COVID-19 pandemic
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Victory banner: DMK cadres putting up a poster of party president M.K. Stalin in Chennai on Monday.
Ma Subramanian given charge of fighting COVID-19 pandemic
DMK president M.K. Stalin, who will be sworn in Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Friday, will head a 34-member Cabinet that includes veterans and 15 new faces and just two women. The Cabinet size is four more than that of the outgoing Edappadi K. Palaniswami Ministry.
While old warhorse and party general secretary Duraimurugan will be the number two in the Cabinet, handling the newly established Department of Water Resources, the focus in the midst of the raging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is on former Chennai Mayor Ma Subramanian, who has been appointed Minister for Medical and Family Welfare, including the Health portfolio. In the pecking order of the Cabinet, though, he is at number 22.
: Thursday, May 6, 2021, 5:42 PM IST
Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin to take oath as CM tomorrow; check out full list of his cabinet colleagues
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Ahead of the formation of the new government in Tamil Nadu after the results of the assembly elections, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief MK Stalin has released the list of ministerial candidates and the portfolios that are allotted. Amid the COVID-19 situation, Mr Stalin has handed over the health department responsibility to MA Subramanian making him the Health Minister of the state.
M.K Stalin shall be taking the oath as the Chief Minister on May 7th. The event will take place at Raj Bhawan and is scheduled to begin at 9 am. The cabinet members will also be taking oath on the same day. M.K Stalin has mentioned that the swearing ceremony will be a small affair and very simple even considering the covid crisis in the state.