India, May 12 -- Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay, nine other ministers, former CMs, including Edappadi K Palaniswami, former deputy CM Udhayanidhi Stalin and the newly elected MLAs on Monday, took the oath of office in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

Pro-team Speaker MV Karuppaiah, praising Vijay's leadership and victory, initiated the proceedings on the administration of the oath of office for MLAs in the first session of the 17th Assembly.

The CM was the first to take oath as an MLA and ministers N Anand, Aadhav Arjuna, KG Arunraj, KA Sengottaiyan, P Venkataramanan, R Nirmalkumar, Rajmohan and TK Prabhu followed suit.

Following this, DMK legislature party leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, former CMs Palan...