{"id":331897,"date":"2021-05-07T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331897"},"modified":"2021-05-07T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T08:30:39","slug":"m-k-stalin-sworn-in-as-chief-minister-of-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/m-k-stalin-sworn-in-as-chief-minister-of-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"M K Stalin sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331898\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/MK_Stalin_PTI-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MK Stalin, the DMK president was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Friday. He led his party to a huge victory in the Assembly polls.<br \/>\nGovernor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 68-year old Stalin, for whom this would be the first stint as CM, in a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 33 ministers were also sworn in following Stalin, of whom 15 are first-time ministers. All the 34, including Stalin took the oath as per their conscience and in Tamil, in sync with the decades old tradition of the DMK.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Stalin, clad in a white shirt and dhoti introduced his Cabinet to Purohit.<\/p>\n<p>DMK veteran and general secretary Duraimurugan, who had held portfolios like Public Works during the previous DMK rule (2006-11) was administered oath after Stalin and is designated as Water Resources Minister in charge of irrigation projects and has portfolios of mines and minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MK Stalin, the DMK president was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Friday. He led his party to a huge victory in the Assembly polls. Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 68-year old Stalin, for whom this would be the first stint as CM, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2534],"tags":[1900,2291,14186,14185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331899,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331897\/revisions\/331899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}