15th Tamil Nadu Assembly

Fifteenth Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu
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Overview
Legislative body	Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly
Meeting place	Fort St. George, Chennai
Term	16 May 2016 (2016-05-16) – 6 May 2021 (2021-05-06)
Election	2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election
Government	Government of Tamil Nadu
Opposition	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Website	Official website
Members	235
Speaker	P. Dhanapal
Deputy Speaker	V. Jayaraman
Chief Minister	Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Deputy Chief Minister	O. Panneerselvam
Leader of the Opposition	M. K. Stalin
Party control	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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.

Overview[]

Source: Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly website^[1]

Chief Ministers[]

Chief Minister		Took Office	Left Office	Term
J. Jayalalithaa		23 May 2016	5 December 2016 (Died in office)	195 days
O. Panneerselvam		5 December 2016	16 February 2017	73 days
Edappadi K. Palaniswamy		16 February 2017	6 May 2021	4 years 2 months 21 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
		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
		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[]

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]

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.Vasanthakumar elected as Member of Parliament in 2019 election,

K K Selvam Joined BJP on 6 August 2020^[8]

See also[]

• Government of Tamil Nadu
• List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
• Legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu

References[]