Tamil Nadu and Puducherry new CMs sworn in

TN CM M K Stalin; (right) Puducherry CM N Rangasamy. Pics/PTI

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, the DMK president who led his party to a huge victory in the Assembly polls was sworn in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on Friday. It will be 68-year old Stalin's first stint as CM.

Puducherry, too, got its chief minister on Friday with the swearing-in of AINRC leader N Rangasamy. Seventy-one-year-old AINRC founder will be heading his maiden coalition cabinet, with alliance party BJP slated to be inducted into the ministry. The swearing-in of the other ministers would be held in the next few days, AINRC party sources said. Of the three BJP members in the cabinet, one would be deputy CM.

COVID relief in TN

Stalin announced a Covid-19 pandemic time relief of Rs 2,000 for the people of the state, a cut in Aavin milk rate and free travel for women in state-run buses, all promises made by his DMK ahead of the April 6 Assembly elections. Issuing his first set of orders after taking over as CM, Stalin also announced bringing COVID-19 treatment in private hospitals under a government insurance scheme, to provide succour to such people, an official release here said.

"To implement that, the CM has signed the order to provide the first instalment of Rs 2,000 in May itself at Rs 4,153.69 crore, covering 2,07,67,000 ration card holders," it said. He also signed another order, reducing the price of milk supplied by state-run Aavin by Rs 3 with effect from May 16.

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