Tamil Nadu News Live Updates: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay is set to expand his cabinet on Thursday, with two Congress MLAs likely to take an oath as ministers. The move will mark the Congress party’s return to the Tamil Nadu government after nearly six decades.
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal announced that party chief Mallikarjun Kharge had approved the induction of MLAs Rajesh Kumar and P Vishwanathan into the Vijay-led cabinet.
“INC President Sh Mallikarjun Kharge ji has approved the induction of INC MLAs Adv. Rajesh Kumar and Thiru P Vishwanathan into the Tamil Nadu cabinet led by CM Thiru Vijay, and they will be taking oath as Ministers tomorrow,” Venugopal said in a post on X.
Calling it a major moment for the party, he added, “This is a historic occasion for us, as the Congress joins the Tamil Nadu cabinet after a long gap of 59 years!”
The Congress had won five seats in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and later extended support to Vijay’s TVK after the party fell short of the majority mark. Vijay took oath as Chief Minister on May 10, heading Tamil Nadu’s first non-Dravidian government in decades.
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