28 ministers take oath

They were O Panneerselvam (Finance, Personnel and Administrative Reforms), Dindigul Srinivasan (Forest), Edappadi K Palaniswami (Highways, PWD, and minor ports), Sellur K Raju (Cooperation and labour), Thangamani (Power, Prohibition and Excise), SP Velumani (Municipal Administration, Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme), D Jayakumar (Fisheries), C.Ve. Shanmugam (Law and Prisons), KP Anbazhagan (Higher Education), Dr. V Saroja (Social Welfare, Nutritious Noon Meal Programme), K.C. Karuppannan (Environment), M.C. Sampath (Industries), R Kamaraj (Food, Civil Supplies and HR&CE), OS Manian (Handlooms & Textiles), Udumalai Radhakrishnan (Housing and Urban Development), C Vijayabhaskar (Health & Family Welfare), SP Shanmuganathan Dairy Development), R Duraikannu (Agriculture and Animal Husbandry), Kadambur Raju (Information and Publicity), RB Udayakumar (Revenue), KT Rajenthra Bhalaji (Rural Industries), K.C. Veeramani (Commercial Taxes), P Benjamin (School Education, Sports and Youth Welfare), Vellamandi N Natarajan (Tourism), S Valarmathi (Backward classes and minority welfare), VM Rajalakshmi (Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare), Dr. M Manikandan (IT) and MR Vijayabhaskar (Transport). The ministers were administered oath of office and secrecy by Governor K Rosaiah in two batches.