Fifteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu

The Fifteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu succeeded the Fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu and was constituted after the victory of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and allies in the 2016 state assembly election held on 16 May. J. Jayalalitha assumed office as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the fourth time.

Fifteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu
17th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
Assumed office
16 February 2017
GovernorBanwarilal Purohit
DeputyO. Panneerselvam
Preceded byO. Panneerselvam
ConstituencyEdappadi
Personal details
Born (1954-03-02) 2 March 1954
Political partyAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
ResidenceChennai: “Sevvanthi” N.B.9, P.S. Kumarasamy Raja Salai, Chennai-600 028
Constituency: Siluvampalayam, Nedungulam Village, Poolampatti via, Edapadi Taluk, Salem District-637 107
Websitehttp://www.assembly.tn.gov.in

Overview

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website[1]

Office Office Bearer
Speaker P. Dhanapal
Deputy Speaker Jayaraman
Leader of the House O. Panneerselvam (until 17 February 2017)

K.A. Sengottaiyan (17 February 2017 to 4 January 2018)[2]

O. Panneerselvam (from 4 January 2018)

Leader of Opposition M. K. Stalin

Chief Ministers

Chief Minister Took Office Left Office Term
J. Jayalalithaa 23 May 2016 5 December 2016 (her death) 195 days
O. Panneerselvam 5 December 2016 16 February 2017 73 days
Edappadi K. Palaniswamy 16 February 2017 Incumbent 1,217 days

Council of Ministers

The council of Ministers in the Cabinet of Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswamy as follows[3]

Name Designation Porfolios
Edappadi K. Palaniswami Chief Minister Public,
Indian Administrative Service,
Indian Police Service,
Indian Forest Service,
General Administration,
District Revenue Officers,
Police and
Home,
Public Works,
Irrigation including Minor Irrigation,
Programme Works,
Highways and Minor Ports
O. Panneerselvam Deputy Chief Minister Finance,
Planning,
Legislative Assembly,
Elections and
Passports,
Housing,
Rural Housing and Housing Development,
Slum Clearance Board and
Accommodation Control,
Town Planning,
Urban Development and
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority
Dindigul C. Sreenivasan Minister for Forests Forests
K. A. Sengottaiyan Minister for School Education,
Minister for Youth Welfare and Sports Development
School Education,
Youth Welfare and
Sports Development Department
Sellur K. Raju Minister for Co-operation Co-operation,
Statistics and Ex-Servicemen Welfare
P. Thangamani Minister for Electricity,
Minister for Prohibition and Excise
Electricity,
Non-Conventional Energy Development,
Prohibition and Excise,
Molasses and Prevention of Corruption Act
S. P. Velumani Minister for Municipal Administration,
Minister for Rural Development and Implementation of Special Programme
Municipal Administration,
Rural Development,
Panchayats and Panchayat Unions,
Poverty Alleviation Programmes,
Rural Indebtedness,
Urban and Rural Water Supply,
Implementation of Special Programme
D. Jayakumar Minister for Fisheries

Minister for Personal and Administrative Reforms

Fisheries and
Fisheries Development Corporation

Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (Training)

C. Ve. Shanmugam Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons,
Minister for Mines and Minerals
Law, Courts and Prisons,
Mines and Minerals
K. P. Anbalagan Minister for Higher Education Higher Education including Technical Education,
Electronics,
Science and Technology
V. Saroja Minister for Social Welfare and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme Social Welfare including Women's and Children's Welfare,
Orphanages and Correctional Administration,
Integrated Child Development and Beggar Homes,
Welfare of the Differently Abled and
Social Reforms and Nutritious Noon Meal Programme
M. C. Sampath Minister for Industries, Steel Control and Special Initiatives Industries,
Steel Control and
Special Initiatives
K. C. Karuppannan Minister for Environment Environment and Pollution Control
R. Kamaraj Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Food,
Civil Supplies,
Consumer Protection and
Price Control
O. S. Manian Minister for Handlooms and Textiles Handlooms and Textiles
Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan Minister for Animal Husbandry Animal Husbandry
C. Vijaya Baskar Minister for Health and Family Welfare Health,
Medical Education and
Family Welfare
R. Doraikkannu Minister for Agriculture Agriculture,
Agricultural Engineering,
Agro Service Cooperatives,
Horticulture,
Sugarcane Cess,
Sugarcane Development and
Waste Land Development
Kadambur Raju Minister for Information and Publicity Information and Publicity
Film Technology and Cinematograph Act,
Stationery and Printing and
Government Press
R. B. Udhayakumar Minister for Revenue

Minister for Disaster Management

Revenue,
District Revenue Establishment,
Deputy Collectors,
Weights and Measures,
Debt Relief including Legislation on Money lending,
Chits,
Registration of Companies

Disaster Management

Vellamandi N. Natarajan Minister for Tourism Tourism,
Tourism Development Corporation
K. C. Veeramani Minister for Commercial Taxes Commercial Taxes,
Registration and Stamp Act
K. T. Rajenthra Bhalaji Minister for Milk and Dairy Development Milk and Dairy Development
P. Benjamin Minister for Rural Industries Rural Industries including Cottage Industries,
Small Industries
M. R. Vijayabhaskar Minister for Transport Transport,
Nationalised Transport and Motor Vehicles Act
Nilofer Kafeel Minister for Labour Labour,
Population,
Employment and Training,
Newsprint Control,
Census and
Urban and Rural Employment and
Wakf Board
M. Manikandan Minister for Information Technology Information Technology
V. M. Rajalakshmi Minister for Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Adi Dravidar Welfare,
Hill Tribes and Bonded Labour
K. Pandiarajan Minister for Tamil Official Language and Tamil Culture Tamil Official Language and
Tamil Culture and Archaeology
G. Baskaran Minister for Khadi and Village Industries Board Khadi and Village Industries Board,
Bhoodhan and Gramadhan
Sevvoor S. Ramachandran Minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments
S. Valarmathi Minister for Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Backward Classes,
Most Backward Classes and

Denotified Communities,
Overseas Indians,
Refugees and Evacuees and
Minorities Welfare

Party positions

Party Number of members
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 123
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 101
Indian National Congress 7
Indian Union Muslim League 1
Independent 1
Nominated 1
Vaccant 1
Total 235

The 123 AIADMK members include three independents who contested and won under the AIADMK symbol.

List of members

Information derived from data produced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) except where noted. The results for two constituencies – Aravakurichi and Thanjavur – were undeclared at the time that the ECI published its list.[4] Reserved constituencies for candidates from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC / ST) were defined in 2007 by the Delimitation Commission.[5]

Schedule No.ConstituencyMLAParty
1GummidipoondiK. S. VijayakumarAIADMK
2Ponneri (SC)P. BalaramanAIADMK
3TiruttaniP. M. NarasimhanAIADMK
4ThiruvallurV. G. RaajendranDMK
5Poonamallee (SC)T. A. ElumalaiAIADMK
6AvadiK. PandiarajanAIADMK
7MaduravoyalP. BenjaminAIADMK
8AmbatturV. AlexanderAIADMK
9MadavaramS. SudharsanamDMK
10ThiruvottiyurVacant
11Dr. Radhakrishnan NagarJ. Jayalalitha
T. T. V. Dhinakaran (bye-election)
AIADMK
Independent
12PeramburP. VetrivelAIADMK
13KolathurM. K. StalinDMK
14VillivakkamB. RanganathanDMK
15Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar (SC)P. Sivakumar alias Thayagam KaviDMK
16Egmore (SC)K. S. RavichandranDMK
17RoyapuramD. JayakumarAIADMK
18HarbourP. K. Sekar BabuDMK
19Chepauk-ThiruvallikeniVacant
20Thousand LightsKu. Ka. SelvamDMK
21Anna NagarM. K. MohanDMK
22VirugambakkamV. N. Virugai RaviAIADMK
23SaidapetM. A. SubramanianDMK
24T. NagarB. SathyanarayananAIADMK
25MylaporeR. NatarajAIADMK
26VelacheryVagai ChandrasekharDMK
27SholinganallurRamesh S. AravindDMK
28AlandurT. M. AnbarasanDMK
29Sriperumbudur (SC)K. PalaniAIADMK
30PallavaramI. KarunanithiDMK
31TambaramS. R. RajaDMK
32ChengalpattuM. VaralakshmiDMK
33ThiruporurM. KothandapaniAIADMK
34Cheyyur (SC)R. T. ArasuDMK
35Maduranthakam (SC)S. PugazhenthiDMK
36UthiramerurK. SundarDMK
37KancheepuramC. V. M. P. EzhilarasanDMK
38Arakkonam (SC)S. RaviAIADMK
39SholingurN. G. ParthibanAIADMK
40KatpadiDuraimuruganDMK
41RanipetR. GandhiDMK
42ArcotJ. L. EswarappanDMK
43VelloreP. KarthikeyanDMK
44AnaikattuA. P. NandakumarDMK
45K. V. Kuppam (SC)G. LoganathanAIADMK
46Gudiyattam (SC)vacant
47VaniyambadiKafeel NiloferAIADMK
48AmburBalasubramaniAIADMK
49JolarpetK. C. VeeramaniAIADMK
50Tirupattur, VelloreA. NallathambiDMK
51Uthangarai (SC)N. ManoranjithamAIADMK
52BargurV. RajendranAIADMK
53KrishnagiriT. SenguttuvanDMK
54VeppanahalliP. MuruganDMK
55HosurP. Balakrishna ReddyAIADMK
56ThalliY. PrakaashDMK
57PalacodeK. P. AnbalaganAIADMK
58PennagaramP. N. P. InbasekaranDMK
59DharmapuriP. SubramaniDMK
60PappireddippattiP. PalaniappanAIADMK
61Harur (SC)R. MuruganAIADMK
62Chengam (SC)M. P. GiriDMK
63TiruvannamalaiE. V. VeluDMK
64KilpennathurK. PitchandiDMK
65KalasapakkamV. PanneerselvamAIADMK
66PolurK. V. SekaranDMK
67AraniS. RamachandranAIADMK
68CheyyarK. MohanAIADMK
69Vandavasi (SC)S. AmbethkumarDMK
70GingeeK. S. MasthanDMK
71MailamR. MasilamaniDMK
72Tindivanam (SC)P. SeethapathyDMK
73Vanur (SC)M. ChakrapaniAIADMK
74VillupuramC. Ve. ShanmugamAIADMK
75VikravandiR. MuthamilselvanDMK
76TirukkoyilurK. PonmudyDMK
77UlundurpettaiR. KumaraguruAIADMK
78RishivandiyamK. KarthikeyanDMK
79SankarapuramT. UdhayasuriyanDMK
80Kallakurichi (SC)A. PrabhuAIADMK
81Gangavalli (SC)A. MaruthamuthuAIADMK
82Attur (SC)R. M. ChinnathambiAIADMK
83Yercaud (ST)G. ChitraAIADMK
84OmalurS. VetrivelAIADMK
85MetturS. SemmalaiAIADMK
86EdapadiK. PalaniswamiAIADMK
87SankariS. RajaAIADMK
88Salem (West)G. VenkatachalamAIADMK
89Salem (North)R. RajendranDMK
90Salem (South)A. B. SakthivelAIADMK
91VeerapandiP. ManonmaniAIADMK
92RasipuramV. SarojaAIADMK
93SenthamangalamC. ChandrasekaranAIADMK
94NamakkalK. P. P. BaskarAIADMK
95Paramathi VelurK. S. MoorthiyDMK
96TiruchengoduPon. SaraswathiAIADMK
97KumarapalayamP. ThangamaniAIADMK
98Erode (East)K. S. ThennarasuAIADMK
99Erode (West)K. V. RamalingamAIADMK
100ModakkurichiV. P. SivasubramaniAIADMK
101Dharapuram (SC)V. S. KalimuthuINC
102KangayamU. ThaniyarasuAIADMK
103PerunduraiN. D. VenkatachalamAIADMK
104BhavaniK. C. KaruppananAIADMK
105AnthiyurK. R. RajakrishnanAIADMK
106GobichettipalayamK. A. SengonttaiyanAIADMK
107Bhavanisagar (SC)S. EswaranAIADMK
108UdhagamandalamR. GaneshINC
109Gudalur (SC)M. ThiravidamaniDMK
110CoonoorA. RamuAIADMK
111MettupalayamO. K. ChinnarajAIADMK
112Avanashi (SC)P. DhanapalAIADMK
113Tiruppur (North)K. N. VijayakumarAIADMK
114Tiruppur (South)S. GunasekaranAIADMK
115PalladamA. NatarajanAIADMK
116SulurR. KanagarajAIADMK
117KavundampalayamV. C. ArukuttyAIADMK
118Coimbatore NorthP. R. G. Arun KumarAIADMK
119ThondamuthurS. P. VelumaniAIADMK
120Coimbatore (South)Arjunan alias K. Amman ArjunanAIADMK
121SinganallurN. KarthikDMK
122KinathukadavuA. ShanmugamAIADMK
123PollachiPollachi V. JayaramanAIADMK
124Valparai (SC)V. Kasthuri VasuAIADMK
125UdumalaipettaiK. RadhakrishnanAIADMK
126MadathukulamR. JayaramakrishnanDMK
127PalaniI. P. SenthilkumarDMK
128OddanchatramR. SakkarapaniDMK
129AthoorI. PeriyasamyDMK
130Nilakottai (SC)R. ThangathuraiAIADMK
131NathamM. A. Andi AmbalamDMK
132DindigulC. SreenivasanAIADMK
133VedasandurV. P. B. ParamasivamAIADMK
134AravakurichiV. Senthil BalajiDMK
135KarurM. R. VijayabhaskarAIADMK
136Krishnarayapuram (SC)M. GeethaAIADMK
137KulithalaiE. RamarDMK
138ManapaaraiR. ChandrasekarAIADMK
139SrirangamS. ValarmathiAIADMK
140Tiruchirappalli (West)K. N. NehruDMK
141Tiruchirappalli (East)N. NatarajanAIADMK
142ThiruverumburAnbil Mahesh PoyyamozhiDMK
143LalgudiA. SoundarapandianDMK
144ManachanallurM. ParameswariAIADMK
145MusiriM. SelvarasuAIADMK
146Thuraiyur (SC)S. StalinkumarDMK
147Perambalur (SC)R. ThamizhselvanAIADMK
148KunnamR. T. RamachandranAIADMK
149AriyalurS. RajendranAIADMK
150JayankondamJ. K. N. RamajeyalingamAIADMK
151Tittakudi (SC)V. GanesanDMK
152VriddhachalamV. T. KalaiselvanAIADMK
153NeyveliRajendran SabaDMK
154PanrutiP. SathyaAIADMK
155CuddaloreM. C. SampathAIADMK
156KurinjipadiM. R. K. PanneerselvamDMK
157BhuvanagiriK. Durai SaravananDMK
158ChidambaramK. A. PandianAIADMK
159Kattumannarkoil (SC)N. MurugumaranAIADMK
160Sirkazhi (SC)P. V. BharathiAIADMK
161MayiladuthuraiV. RathakrishnanAIADMK
162PoompuharS. PavunrajAIADMK
163NagapattinamM. Thamimun AnsariAIADMK
164Kilvelur (SC)U. MathivananDMK
165VedaranyamO. S. ManianAIADMK
166Thiruthuraipoondi (SC)P. AdalarasanDMK
167MannargudiT. R. B. RajaaDMK
168ThiruvarurM. KarunanidhiDMK
169NannilamR. KamarajAIADMK
170Thiruvidaimarudur (SC)Govi ChezhiaanDMK
171KumbakonamG. AnbalaganDMK
172PapanasamR. DoraikkannuAIADMK
173ThiruvaiyaruChandrasekaran DuraiDMK
174ThanjavurM. RengasamyAIADMK
175OrathanaduM. RamchandranDMK
176PattukkottaiV. SekarAIADMK
177PeravuraniM. GovindarasuAIADMK
178Gandharvakottai (SC)B. ArumugamAIADMK
179ViralimalaiC. Vijaya BaskarAIADMK
180PudukkottaiPeriyannan ArassuDMK
181ThirumayamS. RegupathyDMK
182AlangudiSiva V. MeyyanathanDMK
183AranthangiE. RathinasabhapathyAIADMK
184KaraikudiK. R. RamasamyINC
185Tiruppattur, SivagangaK. R. PeriakaruppanDMK
186SivagangaG. BaskaranAIADMK
187Manamadurai (SC)S. MariappankennadyAIADMK
188MelurPeriyapullan alias P. SelvamAIADMK
189Madurai EastP. MoorthyDMK
190Sholavandan (SC)K. ManickamAIADMK
191Madurai NorthV. V. Rajan ChellappaAIADMK
192Madurai SouthS. S. SaravananAIADMK
193Madurai CentralPalanivel ThiagarajanDMK
194Madurai WestK. RajuAIADMK
195ThiruparankundramS. N. SeenivelAIADMK
196TirumangalamR. B. UdhayakumarAIADMK
197UsilampattiP. NeethipathiAIADMK
198AndipattiThangatamilselvamAIADMK
199Periyakulam (SC)K. KathirkamuAIADMK
200BodinayakanurO. PanneerselvamAIADMK
201CumbumS. T. K. JakkaiyanAIADMK
202RajapalayamS. ThangappandianDMK
203Srivilliputhur (SC)M. Chandra PrabhaAIADMK
204SatturS. G. SubramanianAIADMK
205SivakasiK. T. Rajenthra BhalajiAIADMK
206VirudhunagarA. R. R. SeenivasanDMK
207AruppukkottaiK. K. S. S. R. RamachandranDMK
208TiruchuliT. Thangam ThenarasuDMK
209Paramakudi (SC)S. Muthiah (MLA)AIADMK
210TiruvadanaiKarunaasAIADMK
211RamanathapuramM. ManikandanAIADMK
212MudhukulathurS. PandiINC
213VilathikulamK. Uma MaheswariAIADMK
214ThoothukkudiP. Geetha JeevanDMK
215TiruchendurAnitha R. RadhakrishnanDMK
216SrivaikuntamS. P. ShanmuganathanAIADMK
217Ottapidaram (SC)R. SundararajAIADMK
218KovilpattiC. Kadambur RajuAIADMK
219Sankarankovil (SC)M. RajalakshmiAIADMK
220Vasudevanallur (SC)A. ManoharanAIADMK
221KadayanallurK. A. M. Muhammed AbubackerIUML
222TenkasiS. Selvamohandas PandianAIADMK
223AlangulamPoongothai Aladi ArunaDMK
224TirunelveliA. L. S. LakshmananDMK
225AmbasamudramR. Murugaiah PandianAIADMK
226PalayamkottaiP. M. Mohideen KhantDMK
227NanguneriV Narayanan-
228RadhapuramI. S. InbaduraiAIADMK
229KanniyakumariS. AustinDMK
230NagercoilN. Suresh RajanDMK
231ColachalJ. G. PrinceINC
232PadmanabhapuramT. Mano ThangarajDMK
233VilavancodeS. VijayadharaniINC
234KilliyoorS. Rajesh KumarINC
235NominatedNancy Ann Cynthia FrancisAnglo-Indian community

Important events

On 18 September 2017, the Speaker of the Assembly disqualified 18 dissident AIADMK MLAs.[6]

T. T. V. Dhinakaran was elected as an independent candidate from Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency in the bye-election held on 21 December 2017.

On 7 January 2019, Tamil Nadu sports minister P Balakrishna Reddy sentenced to three years in 1998 riot case, steps down.[7]

H.Vasantha kumar elected as Member of Parliament in 2019 election,

See also

References

  1. "Home Page of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly". Assembly.tn.gov.in. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. "Sengottaiyan Named Leader of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly". The Indian Express. 17 February 2017.
  3. "Government of Tamil Nadu Website".
  4. "General Election to Legislative Assembly Trends and Results 2016: Tamil Nadu : Constituency-wise Trends". Election Commission of India. 19 May 2016. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016.
  5. "Notification" (PDF). Delimitation Commission of India. 13 August 2007. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  6. "Tamil Nadu Speaker disqualifies 18 dissident AIADMK MLAs". The Hindu. 18 September 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  7. "Tamil Nadu sports minister P Balakrishna Reddy sentenced to three years in 1998 riot case, steps down". newindianexpress. 7 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
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