Chennai, May 21 -- Right from the first ever coalition governance that ended the six-decade old long entrenched Dravidian duopoly to the highest ever representation for women and dalits, several firsts marked the first expansion of Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay's TVK Cabinet on Thursday.
Ten days after assuming office along with nine other Ministers, Vijay expanded his cabinet by inducting 23 Ministers, including two from its new found ally, the Congress, which made its grand entry into the Council of Ministers for the first time in 59 years, when the Golden rule of Kamaraj/Bhaktavatchalam was dethroned in 1967 drawing the curtains down on the long witnessed Congress era of governance in the state, which from then was dominated by the Drav...