{"id":72836,"date":"2021-05-07T18:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72836"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:25:10","slug":"new-34-member-tamil-nadu-cabinet-has-a-unique-combination-of-a-stalin-a-gandhi-and-also-a-nehru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72836","title":{"rendered":"New  34 Member Tamil Nadu cabinet has a unique combination of  a Stalin, a Gandhi and also a Nehru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nDMK president MK Stalin took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu along with 33 other Cabinet ministers. Interestingly, the Tamil Nadu cabinet now has a unique combination of a Stalin, a Gandhi and a Nehru.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MK Stalin, who was named after late Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, was sworn in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Friday after the DMK-led alliance won 159 seats, trumping the long AIADMK rule.<\/p>\n<p>Tiruchirappalli-based DMK strongman and former minister, KN Nehru took oath as the Minister for Municipal Administration, a department that was earlier handled by Stalin in the previous DMK government.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>KN Nehru was reportedly named after none other than India\u2019s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as his father was a staunch supporter of the Congress leader.<\/p>\n<p>The third is R Gandhi, who was sworn in as the Handlooms and Textiles minister in the Tamil Nadu cabinet on Friday. Together, the three ministers form the unique trio of Stalin-Nehru-Gandhi.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous DMK regime from 2006 to 2011, MK Stalin had served as the Deputy Chief Minister to his father and party patriarch M Karunanidhi, who was the Chief Minister.<\/p>\n<p>In a thumping return to power in Tamil Nadu, DMK has won 133 seats in the April 6 assembly election and along with allies, including Congress, had garnered a total of 159 seats in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly.<br \/>\nThe AIADMK won 66 segments and its partners BJP and PMK, four and five seats respectively.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:India Today<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton72836\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D72836&amp;text=New%20%2034%20Member%20Tamil%20Nadu%20cabinet%20has%20a%20unique%20combination%20of%20%20a%20Stalin%2C%20a%20Gandhi%20and%20also%20a%20Nehru&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DMK president MK Stalin took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu along with 33 other Cabinet ministers. Interestingly, the Tamil Nadu cabinet now has a unique combination of a Stalin, a Gandhi and a Nehru. MK Stalin, who was named after late Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, was sworn in as the chief &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=72836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;New  34 Member Tamil Nadu cabinet has a unique combination of  a Stalin, a Gandhi and also a Nehru&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72837,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72836\/revisions\/72837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}