Jaya sworn in as Tamil Nadu CM

May 17, 2011 - S. Thirunavukarasu |

Age Corespondent

chennai

AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu along with 33 ministers at a glittering ceremony in the centenary auditorium of the Madras University, which was packed with applauding party functionaries and special invitees including Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and TDP chief N. Chandrababu

Naidu. Governor S.S. Barnala administered the oath of office to the CM and her Cabinet. All of them took their oath in the name of God. This will be Ms Jayalalithaa’s third term as chief minister since she first took over the reins of administration in 1991, sworn in at the same venue. Dressed in a lovely maroon sari, she looked younger than her 63 years and was a picture of dignity and poise, despite the hour-long ceremony getting delayed by 25 minutes as the governor was caught in traffic, it cost police commissioner T. Rajendran his job. The new Cabinet has 24 new faces. Old timers O. Panneerselvam (finance), K.A Sengottaiyan (agriculture) and Natham R. Viswanathan (power) followed the chief minister in that order to take the oath. Apart from the CM, the team has two women, S. Gokula Indira and Selvi Ramajayam.
Hundreds of AIADMK followers watched the proceedings on big screens placed outside.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/74095" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-489be93e6339e137e8bd9cfcd9e50810" value="form-489be93e6339e137e8bd9cfcd9e50810" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="88363600" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>