Vijayawada, June 19
Janasena Party (JSP) president and Pithapuram MLA Pawan Kalyan took charge as Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Environment, Forests, and Science and Technology and Rural Water Supply.
State cabinet ministers, JSP leaders and officials were present.
Telugu Desam Party leader Chandrababu Naidu took oath as Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister on June 12 along with his council of ministers.
The TDP fought the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections as well as the Lok Sabha polls in partnership with the BJP and the Janasena Party.
TDP- BJP-Janasena Party alliance registered a landslide victory in the assembly as well as parliamentary elections.
TDP has 135 MLAs in the Andhra Pradesh assembly while Janasena Party has 21 and BJP eight. The opposition YSR Congress Party has 11 MLAs.