NE NEWS SERVICE
VIJAYAWADA, JUNE 12
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Chief N Chandrababu Naidu, took oath as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on Wednesday amid the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Amit Shah, JP Nadda, and Nitin Gadkari, a host of Central leaders and also a galaxy of South superstars Including Rajinikanth and Chiranjeevi.
Took oath as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at the swearing-in ceremony in Amaravati today. I devote myself to serving the people of my state.
Thank you Andhra Pradesh! pic.twitter.com/reZbf4MuzV
— N Chandrababu Naidu (@ncbn) June 12, 2024
PM Modi giving a warm hug to Chandrababu Naidu, after the latter’s swearing-in as the CM turned out to be the key highlight of the oath ceremony. However, the internet is also abuzz with Naidu’s praise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the latter’s culture of promoting hard-working party workers and also rewarding them in due course.
Thank you, Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji, for your august presence at the oath-taking ceremony in Amaravati today. The @JaiTDP, @JanaSenaParty and @BJP4Andhra Government will strive to deliver a people-centric governance. We're grateful for your commitment to the… https://t.co/IYlao0PiG8
— N Chandrababu Naidu (@ncbn) June 12, 2024
This is the fourth time that Naidu is assuming charge as Andhra Chief Minister and the second time after the bi-furcation in 2014.
Naidu became chief minister first in 1995, before the Andhra bifurcation and he led the state until 2004 for nine consecutive years. The TDP supremo returned as the chief minister of the bifurcated Andhra in 2014 and served until 2019
Andhra governor S Abdul Nazeer, former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundarajan were present at the swearing-in.
Naidu’s son and TDP general secretary Nara Lokesh, Union Minister Rammohan Naidu, actors Chiranjeevi, Rajnikanth, Nandamuri Balakrishna were also present on occasion.
Naidu had led the TDP- BJP-Janasena National Democratic Alliance to a landslide victory in the Assembly as well as parliamentary elections.
TDP holds the majority in Andhra Pradesh 175-member assembly with 135 MLAs, while its allies, the Janasena Party, has 21 and BJP has eight. The opposition YSR Congress Party has 11 legislators.
As per a list released by the TDP, the Cabinet will have 21 MLAs from the TDP, three from the Janasena Party and one from the BJP.
The TDP MLAs who will be taking oaths include Nara Lokesh, Kinjarapu Atchannaidu, Nimmala Ramanaidu, NMD Farooq, Anam Ramanarayana Reddy, Payyavula Kesav, Kollu Ravindra, Ponguru Narayana, Vangalapudi Anita, Anagani Satya Prasad, Kolusu Parthasaradhi, Kola Balaveeranjaneya Swamy, Gottipati Ravi, Gummadi Sandhyarani, BC Janardhan Reddy, TG Bharath, S Savitha, Vasamsetty Subhash, Kondapalli Srinivas and Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy.
Konidela Pawan Kalyan, Nadendla Manohar and Kandula Durgesh will be swearing-in as ministers representing the Janasena Party, while Satya Kumar Yadav is the lone MLA from BJP taking oath today as minister in the Naidu cabinet.
