Five ministers, together with two BJP ministers, have been inducted within the NDA cupboard led by Chief Minister N Rangasamy on Sunday, ending the suspense over cupboard formation that has been occurring for greater than a month.
In entrance of the Raj Niwas, Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath of workplace to A Namassivayam, Okay Lakshminarayanan, C Jakoumar, Chandira Priyanga and AK Sai J Saravana Kumar as ministers. All the ministers took oath within the title of God. Chief Minister Rangasamy and others have been current on the event.
The portfolios of the ministers weren’t disclosed. Lakshminarayanan, Jakoumar and Priyanga symbolize key allies AINRC, whereas Namassivayam and Saravana Kumar are from its ally BJP.
This is the primary time the saffron celebration is a part of a ministry in a union territory. In this train a girl member additionally turned a minister after a spot of 41 years, during which Chandira Priyanga was sworn in.
Late Congress chief Renuka Appadurai was the final girl minister of the union territory throughout 1980-83 and held the schooling portfolio within the MDR Ramachandran (DMK)-led coalition ministry.
Ending the greater than a month-long suspense over cupboard formation, Chief Minister N Rangasamy on June 23 submitted to Sundararajan the record of members to be included in his ministry, which was later authorised by the President.
Though the AINRC-led NDA had received the April 6 meeting elections on this union territory, the cupboard formation dragged on for a very long time because the saffron celebration initially pushed for the deputy CM’s submit, however later the Speaker. negotiated for the submit.
Soon after main his alliance to victory, AINRC founder Rangasamy was sworn in as chief minister on 7 May, however no different cupboard member took the oath.
Later, BJP’s ‘Embalam’ R Selvam was elected unopposed because the Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly on 16 June. The swearing-in ceremony was held at 2.30 pm in entrance of the Raj Niwas, the workplace cum residence of the Lieutenant Governor.
AINRC received 10 out of 16 seats and led the NDA right here.
The BJP received six of the 9 seats it contested. NDA is supported by three nominated members of BJP. There are 33 MLAs in the home together with three nominated MLAs.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
