A 25- member Council of Ministers in Andhra Pradesh headed byN. Chandrababu Naidu will take pledge on Wednesday.
Jana Sena Party President Pawan Kalyan will be the only Deputy Chief Minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-led government.
The list of 24 ministers released in the early hours of Wednesday includes three from the Jana Sena Party and one from the Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP). The rest are from the Telugu Desam Party( TDP).
Chief Minister- designate Chandrababu Naidu transferred the list of ministers to GovernorS. Abdul Nazeer, who’ll administer the pledge to him and his Council of Ministers, at a public form to be held at Kesarapalli IT Park near Gannavaram Airport, Vijayawada.
The Council of Ministers include Chandrababu Naidu’s son and TDP General Secretary Nara Lokesh, TDP’s Andhra Pradesh unit chairmanK. Atchannaidu and Jana Sena Party political affairs commission president Nadendla Manohar.
At 1127a.m., the Governor will administer the pledge of office and secretiveness to 74- time-old Naidu, who led NDA to a landslide palm in the lately concluded choices.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Union Health MinisterJ.P. Nadda, other Union Ministers, leaders of NDA abettors and Chief Ministers of some countries will be attending the swearing- in form.
Naidu finalised his clerical platoon after a meeting with Amit Shah andJ.P. Nadda at his hearthstone in Amaravati late on Tuesday night.
Satya Kumar Yadav is the only BJP MLA who’ll be sworn in as a Minister.
Three Ministers from Jana Sena Party are Pawan Kalyan, Nadendla Manohar and Kandula Durgesh.
Naidu’s clerical platoon has 17 new faces. The remaining had served as Ministers in the history.
The TDP Chief has kept one vacancy.
The Council of Ministers has three women.
elderly leaderN. Mohammed Farook is the only Muslim face.
The list of Ministers includes eight from Backward Classes, three from slated gentries, and one from slated lines.
Naidu has included four ministers each from the Kamma and Kapu communities. Three from Reddy and one from Vysya communities have also set up a place in the Cabinet.
While Naidu belongs to the socially and politically important Kamma community, Pawan Kalyan comes from the Kapu community.
The TDP- led alliance wrested power from YSRCP with a massive accreditation in the choices held last month. It bagged 164 seats in the 175- member Assembly.
TDP alone won 135 seats while Jana Sena Party bagged all 21 seats it queried. The BJP won eight out of 10 seats it queried.
The YSRCP, which had 151 members in the former Assembly, has been reduced to just 11.
