Chennai: Madurai Central MLA Palanivel Thiagarajan, who is the son of former DMK leader PTR Palanivel Rajan, today took charge as the Finance Minister of Tamilnadu.
Talking to a TV channel after taking oath, he said several innovative measures were needed to correct the State’s financial position, when went bad during the last few years.
He said, “Standard methods cannot bring back the state finances to comfortable levels…it needs some innovative measures”.
The 34-member Cabinet included DMK veterans, who had served in the previous M Karunanidhi Cabinet, besides 15 new faces and two women.
The only two women representatives in the Cabinet are former Minister P Geetha Jeevan, now the Minister for Social Welfare and Women Empowerment), who was part of the DMK Cabinet between 2006 and 2011, and new face Kayalvizhi Selvaraj, who was made Adi Dravidar Welfare Minister.
The size of the Cabinet was four more than that of the outgoing Edappadi K Palaniswami Ministry.