In a minor reshuffle, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami named D. Jayakumar as Finance Minister. Mr. Jayakumar will now head the Finance, Planning, Legislative Assembly, Elections and Passports, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and Personnel and Administrative Reforms (training) departments in addition to his current Fisheries portfolio. He has now been redesignated Minister for Finance and Personnel and Administrative Reforms, a Raj Bhavan release said. Mr. Palaniswami was holding the portfolios allocated to Mr. Jayakumar.
