National and State Leaders Congratulate New Chief Minister

PRESS RELEASE On the occasion of his assuming office, numerous leaders conveyed their congratulations and good wishes to the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Thiru. C. Joseph Vijay. Among those who conveyed greetings were: • Thiru K.C. Venugopal, General Secretary, Indian National Congress • Thiru P. Chidambaram, former Union Minister and Member of Parliament • Hon'ble Anwar Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Malaysia • Thiru Edappadi K. Palaniswami, General Secretary, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and former Chief Minister • Thiru Udhayanidhi Stalin, Hon'ble Leader of the Opposition, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly • Thiru Chandrababu Naidu, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh • Thiru Samrat Choudhary, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Bihar • Thiru Conrad Sangma, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Meghalaya • Thiru Neiphiu Rio, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Nagaland • Thiru Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana • Thiru D. Raja, National General Secretary, Communist Party of India • Thiru Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh • Thiru Akhilesh Yadav, former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh • Tmt. Mehbooba Mufti, President, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party and former Chief Minister • Tmt. Roja Selvamani, former Minister, Andhra Pradesh • Thiru K. Balakrishnan, former State Secretary and Politburo member, CPI(M) • Thiru M. Veerapandian, Tamil Nadu State Secretary, Communist Party of India • Thiru Ira. Mutharasan, former Tamil Nadu State Secretary, Communist Party of India • Dr. S. Ramadoss, Founder, Pattali Makkal Katchi • Tmt. Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, Member of Parliament, Thoothukudi • Tmt. Tamizhachi Thangapandian, Member of Parliament, South Chennai • Thiru Thangam Thennarasu, MLA and former Minister • Thiru Deependra Singh Hooda, Member of Parliament, Rohtak, Haryana • Thiru H. Raja, former National Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party • Tmt. Vanathi Srinivasan, National President, BJP Mahila Morcha • Dr. Salman Mohammed, National Spokesperson, Indian National Congress • Thiru Rajinikanth, Tamil film actor and Superstar All of the above conveyed their good wishes to the Hon'ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Thiru. C. Joseph Vijay, on his assumption of office. ••••••••••••• Issued By: Director, Directorate of Information and Public Relations, Chennai-9 [OCR extraction was largely corrupted for this source — the connecting Tamil sentences describing each greeting did not extract properly (mostly blank/whitespace); only the proper names of the leaders who conveyed greetings, listed above, were legible. The list above reflects the names recoverable from the OCR text; no invented sentences have been added beyond identifying that these leaders congratulated the Chief Minister.]