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J Jayalalithaa, 68, took oath as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for
the sixth time on Monday, and cleared five files, waiving farmers’ debt
and providing limited free electricity to domestic consumers.
She also started a phased prohibition, providing free gold for marriages
and free power for handloom weavers. All these were major promises her
party made in their manifesto before the Assembly elections. Jayalalithaa’s
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) won 134 out of 232
Assembly seats. Election for two has been postponed to June.
The chief minister and 28 of her Cabinet colleagues were sworn in by
Governor K Rosaiah on Monday at the Madras University’s Centenary Hall.
The list included 13 new faces and four women. S Semmalai has been named
as pro-tem Speaker. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as chief minister for the
second consecutive term, a rare feat for a political party in Tamil
Nadu. Despite the rivalry between the two parties, Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam (DMK) treasurer M K Stalin attended the swearing-in ceremony.
This was the second time Stalin attended Jayalalithaa’s swearing in. In
2001, as Chennai mayor, he, along with a few DMK leaders, attended the
function. After the ceremony, the chief minister drove straight to her
office at the Secretariat and signed the five files. The first was an
order to waive off small and medium farmers’ loans in the cooperative
banks. This would cost the state around Rs 5,780 crore. Also, domestic
users are now entitled to 100 units of free electricity. This will cost
the state around Rs 1,607 crore. Read More
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