Tamil Nadu Cabinet Expansion: VCK, IUML join Vijay cabinet amid ‘Tamil Thai Vaazhthu’ row and alliance friction | Chennai News

CHENNAI: IUML’s A M Shahjahan and VCK’s Vanni Arasu were inducted into chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s cabinet on Friday. This takes the total number of ministers in the 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly to 35, completing the final line-up of the Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam-led multi-parties’ coalition govt.With this, the number of Dalit ministers in the…

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Vijay Cabinet Expansion: Two Brahmins, four women, nine under-40s: What Vijay’s cabinet says about the new Tamil Nadu | Chennai News

CHENNAI: Congress made a comeback into govt in Tamil Nadu, ending its 59-year exile, with two of its legislators among 23 new ministers sworn in, as CM C Joseph Vijay Thursday expanded his cabinet in an exercise that rewarded loyalists, accommodated allies and signalled a bid to rewrite social engineering.With 21 TVK ministers taking oath…

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