NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu ministers Senthil Balaji and Okay Ponmudy stop the chief minister MK Stalin-led Cupboard on Sunday, reported information company PTI, citing Raj Bhavan. Governor RN Ravi has accepted the resignation of each the leaders.
SS Sivasankar has been moreover assigned the Electrical energy portfolio. S Muthusamy may even deal with Prohibition and Excise. RS Rajakannappan will now oversee Forests and Khadi and has been appointed because the minister for forests and khadi.
Moreover, the CM Stalin has advisable the induction of T Mano Thangaraj, MLA from Padmanabhapuram meeting Constituency, into the Cupboard.
The swearing-in ceremony for the brand new minister designate is scheduled for Monday, April 28 at Raj Bhavan, Chennai.
The resignation of the 2 ministers comes as each the DMK leaders face authorized challenges, with the Supreme Courtroom on Thursday agreeing to listen to a plea within the cash-for-jobs rip-off, through which Senthil Balaji is likely one of the primary accused.
The plea has challenged the clubbing of 4 separate chargesheets – pertaining to deprave practices within the appointments of assistant engineers, junior tradesmen, conductors and drivers – with an present case associated to the appointment of junior engineers.
On Wednesday, the Madras excessive courtroom famous that the remarks made by Okay Ponmudy in opposition to Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and ladies have been prima facie hate speech and determined to provoke suo motu proceedings in opposition to him in that regard.
“Prima facie, it was evident that his remarks demean the ethical value of intercourse staff, notably girls, and have been calculated to subvert concord and peace amongst non secular teams and numerous sects,” the decide mentioned.
The feedback, on the face of it, have been utterly derogatory in the direction of girls and intentionally spewed venom and hatred on the 2 primary sects of Hinduism, the decide added. The decide directed the initiation of proceedings because the Tamil Nadu police did not register an FIR in opposition to the minister, as instructed by the excessive courtroom final week.
In response to the courtroom, as per the Supreme Courtroom order, police are mandated to register a case in opposition to such hate speech even within the absence of a proper grievance.