00:00Breaking news that's just coming in.
00:02Chief Minister Vijay likely to expand his cabinet later this week.
00:07List yet to reach the Lok Bhavan.
00:10Post-governor's nod, the ministers will be sworn in.
00:15This list is likely to include Congress ministers.
00:18Two Congress MLA's likely to be inducted.
00:21That's the breaking news we're bringing you from Tamil Nadu.
00:24The list of ministers is yet to reach the Lok Bhavan as Chief Minister Vijay is likely to expand his
00:33cabinet later this week.
00:37And this comes in as newly inducted Chief Minister Vijay is still finalizing and formalizing his cabinet.
00:46Information coming in that the cabinet expansion may be taking place sometime this week.
00:52But at the moment what we can tell you viewers is that the list of MLAs, the list of ministers
00:59is yet to reach the governor.
01:01So obviously under the constitution for any minister to take oath, the governor has to give a nod.
01:10The governor has to approve any ministers who may be inducted.
01:14Pramod Madhav joins me on this story.
01:17Pramod, the newly inducted Chief Minister likely to expand his cabinet.
01:22What kind of numbers are we looking at?
01:24What kind of division when it comes to seats for each party are we looking at?
01:31Anisha, one important aspect is that like now the Chief Minister Vijay has shown that his supporting number is not
01:36120 but 144 with the revealed AIDMK release.
01:40So there were talks initially even by EPS, the General Secretary of AIDMK claiming that probably six members from the
01:47AIDMK could also get the seat.
01:49But that is not confirmed right now.
01:50Congress on the other hand, even before TVK would go ahead and confirm it, Congress on the other hand has
01:54confirmed that of the five MLAs who are supporting TVK in the form of alliance,
01:59two members, especially one Rajesh and another person, will definitely, those MLAs will get a seat.
02:03This was also confirmed by Mahanikin Tagore and Congress has very clearly said that they are here for a long
02:07run.
02:07They will be a part of the governance.
02:09They will also have power sharing and along with it, they will contest the local board elections and 2021 elections
02:13as well.
02:14So this is confirmed for now.
02:16We are like, last term, the minister's numbers were 33.
02:19So now we have nine ministers plus the Chief Minister.
02:22So we're expecting a major, you know, expansion of the cabinet, Anisha.
02:26All right.
02:27Thank you very much for that, Pramod Madhav.
02:28He will also be keeping a very close eye on every development from Tamil Nadu.
Comments