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With 7 of the 33 Ministers sworn into the caller Cabinet connected Thursday winning from Chennai constituencies, the State superior has secured 1 of its strongest representations successful the Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers successful caller years.
This includes Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) caput C. Joseph Vijay, the MLA from Perambur who holds the Municipal Administration, Urban and Water Supply portfolio successful summation to different cardinal sectors. Since galore successful the apical enactment of the TVK decided to contention from Chennai, and leaders became ministers, the city’s publication to the existent furniture is among the highest ever.
TVK wide caput and T. Nagar MLA N. Anand is the Minister for Rural Development and Water Resources. TVK wide caput (election run management) and Villivakkam MLA Aadhav Arjuna is the Minister for Public Works and Sports Development. Similarly, Egmore (SC) MLA Rajmohan is the Minister for School Education, Tamil Development, Information and Publicity, and Mylapore MLA P. Venkataramanan is the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies.
Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar MLA N. Marie Wilson holds the Finance, Planning, and Development portfolios portion Velachery legislator R. Kumar has been assigned the portfolio of Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology and Digital Services.
Past years
The existent allocation marks a important summation successful practice for Chennai compared to the erstwhile administrations.
In the 2021 DMK Cabinet headed by erstwhile Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, who represented Kolathur, lone 3 MLAs from the metropolis were present, including P.K. Sekarbabu (Harbour) and Ma. Subramanian (Saidapet). Later, Udhayanidhi Stalin was sworn successful arsenic the Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development successful December 2022.
Before that, the 2016 AIADMK Cabinet featured conscionable 2 Ministers from Chennai, including erstwhile CM J. Jayalalithaa (Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar) and D. Jayakumar (Royapuram). Similarly, the 2011 AIADMK authorities included lone 2 metropolis representatives, G. Senthamizhan (Saidapet) and Gokula Indira (Anna Nagar).
