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AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for a record sixth time along with 28 Cabinet colleagues on Monday at a glittering ceremony for which invitations have been extended to several national leaders.
The ceremony is to be held at noon at the centenary auditorium of Madras University.
Invitations have been sent to Ms Jayalalithaa’s counterparts in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh Navin Patnaik and N. Chandrababu Naidu and a few other chief ministers and leaders of Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu.
Mr Patnaik, who is camping in New Delhi, has several “important appointments” on Monday, a senior official at the Orissa Bhavan in the national capital told this newspaper, but did not rule last-minute changes to the CM’s itinerary.
Ms Jayalalithaa will be sworn-in as chief minister at the head of a 28-member Cabinet, which has an equal mix of experienced leaders and newcomers. After meeting governor K. Rosaiah on Saturday and handing over the letter of her election as leader of AIADMK Legislature Party, the chief minister also gave the list of her new Cabinet colleagues.
While retaining 13 ministers of the outgoing cabinet, the chief minister also brought in a few party veterans and inducted three women into the ministry.
The Chief Minister, who got a renewed mandate from the people on May 19 when votes polled in the Assembly elections were counted, has promised to strive towards implementing all her poll promises.
