Chandrababu Naidu Sworn In as Andhra Pradesh CM, Pawan Kalyan as His Deputy

A week after the Andhra Pradesh Assembly election results gave an overwhelming majority to the Telugu Desam Party-Jana Sena Party-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance, TDP chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu took oath as the chief minister of the state on Wednesday, 12 June.

Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan, the president of the JSP, was sworn in as his deputy, while Naidu's son Nara Lokesh took oath as a Cabinet minister.

The oath-taking ceremony took place at the Kesarapalli IT Park near Gannavaram Airport on the outskirts of Vijayawada.

As many as 24 MLAs from the TDP-JSP-BJP combine have been sworn in as ministers in Naidu's Cabinet. While 21 of them are from the TDP, three are from the JSP, and one is from the BJP. Apart from Pawan Kalyan, the JSP MLAs who took oath are Nadendla Manohar and Kandula Durgesh. The only BJP MLA to be sworn in is Satya Kumar Yadav.

While three women MLAs were sworn in – namely Vangalapudi Anitha, Gummadi Sandhyarani, and S Savitha – only one Muslim MLA, NMD Farooq (TDP), found a place in Naidu's Cabinet.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Union Health Minister JP Nadda were among the dignitaries who took part in the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday.

Attended the oath taking ceremony of the new Andhra Pradesh Government. Congratulations to Shri @ncbn Garu on becoming the Chief Minister and also to all the others who took oath as Ministers in the Government. The @JaiTDP, @JanaSenaParty and @BJP4Andhra Government is fully… pic.twitter.com/ZCooS5ihIe

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) June 12, 2024

The star-studded event also saw actors Rajinikanth, Nagarjuna, Junior NTR, and Chiranjeevi, the brother of Pawan Kalyan.

In the Assembly elections held on 13 May, the NDA decimated YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSRCP, which won only 11 of the 175 Assembly seats in the state. The TDP won 135 seats, JSP 21 seats, and BJP 8 seats.

Who Are the Members of Naidu's Cabinet?

The following leaders were sworn in as ministers in Chandrababu Naidu-led NDA Cabinet in Andhra Pradesh:

1. Pawan Kalyan - JSP

2. Nara Lokesh - TDP

3. Kinjarapu Atchannaidu - TDP

4. Kollu Ravindra -TDP

5. Nadendla Manohar - JSP

6. P Narayana - TDP

7. Vangalapudi Anitha - TDP

8. Satya Kumar Yadav - BJP

9. Nimmala Rama Naidu - TDP

10. NMD Farooq - TDP

11. Anam Ramanarayana Reddy - TDP

12. Payyavula Kesav - TDP

13. Anagani Satya Prasad - TDP

14. Kolusu Parthasaradhi - TDP

15. Dola Balaveeranjaneya Swamy - TDP

16. Gottipati Ravi Kumar - TDP

17. Kandula Durgesh - JSP

18. Gummadi Sandhyarani - TDP

19. BC Jardhan Reddy - TDP

20. TG Bharath - TDP

21. S Savitha - TDP

22. Vasamsetti Subhash - TDP

23. Kondapalli Srinivas - TDP

24. Mandipalli Ram Prasad Reddy - TDP

'Amaravati Will Be the Capital': Naidu

Chandrababu Naidu was unanimously elected as the NDA leader in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday at a joint meeting of the TDP-JSP-BJP MLAs. Meanwhile, Pawan Kalyan was elected as the leader of the Jana Sena Legislative Party.

Speaking at the NDA legislators' meeting, Naidu said he would scrap former chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy's three capitals plan.

"Amaravati is the capital of Andhra Pradesh," he said.

He added, as per The Hindu: "Construction of the capital city in Amaravati and completion of Polavaram projects are among the major priorities of the government. We have to take up the interlinking of rivers too and ensure irrigation water for every acre in the state. There is no room for demolitions and vindictive politics."