Andhra Pradesh Council of Ministers

Andhra Pradesh Council of Ministers
Āndhra Pradesh Rāṣṭra Mantri Maṇḍali

Seat of Government	Amaravati
Legislative branch
Assembly	Andhra Pradesh State Assembly
Speaker	Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu[1]
Members in Assembly	175
Council	Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council
Chairman	Koyye Moshenu Raju
Deputy Chair	Zakia Khanam
Members in Council	58
Executive branch
Governor	Syed Abdul Nazeer
Chief Minister	Nara Chandrababu Naidu
Deputy Chief Minister	Pawan Kalyan
Chief Secretary	Neerabh Kumar Prasad[2]

The Andhra Pradesh Council of Ministers are elected legislative members, who are appointed as ministers by the Governor of Andhra Pradesh to form the executive branch of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. They hold various portfolios as decided by the Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh. The most recent state council of ministers is headed by N. Chandrababu Naidu after the 2024 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election.^[3][4][5] The term of every executive wing is five years.

The council of ministers are assisted by department secretaries attached to each ministry who are from IAS cadre. The chief executive officer responsible for issuing orders on behalf of Government is Chief Secretary to the State Government.

According to Article 163 of the Indian Constitution,^[6]

# There shall be a Council of Ministers with the Chief Minister at the head to aid and advise the Governor in the exercise of his function, except in so far as he is by or under this Constitution required to exercise his functions or any of them in his discretion.

1. If any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is by or under this Constitution required to act in his discretion, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in his discretion.
2. The question whether any, and if so what, advice was tendered by Ministers to the Governor shall not be inquired into in any court.

This means that the Ministers serve under the pleasure of the Governor and he/she may remove them, on the advice of the Chief Minister, whenever they want.

The Chief Minister shall be appointed by the Governor and the other Ministers shall be appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, and the Minister shall hold office during the pleasure of the Governor:

Provided that in the States of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, there shall be a Minister in charge of tribal welfare who may in addition be in charge of the welfare of the Scheduled Castes and backward classes or any other work.

# The Council of Minister shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the State.

1. Before a Minister enters upon his office, the Governor shall administer to him the oaths of office and of secrecy according to the forms set out for the purpose in the Third Schedule.
2. A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the Legislature of the State shall at the expiration of that period cease to be a Minister.
3. The salaries and allowances of Ministers shall be such as the Legislature of the State may from time to time by law determine and, until the Legislature of the State so determines, shall be a specified in the Second Schedule.

Like any Indian state, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh is the real head of the government and responsible for state administration. He is the leader of the parliamentary party in the legislature and heads the state cabinet.

As per Indian Constitution, all portfolios of state government is vested in Chief Minister, who distribute various portfolio to individual ministers whom he nominates to the State Governor. The state governor appoints individual ministers for various portfolios and departments as per advice of Chief Minister and together form the State Cabinet. As the original portfolios are vested with CM, who delegates to others upon his/her wish, actions of individual ministers are part of collective responsibility of the state cabinet and Chief Minister is responsible for actions of each minister. The state cabinet along with Chief Minister, prepares General policy and individual department policy, which will be guiding policy for day-to-day administration of each minister.

#	Portrait	Minister	Portfolio	Constituency	Tenure		Party
					Took office	Left office
Chief Minister
1		Nara Chandrababu Naidu	General Administration Law & Order Public Enterprises All other portfolios not allocated to any Minister	Kuppam	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
Deputy Chief Minister
2		Konidala Pawan Kalyan	Panchayat Raj Rural development & Rural water supply Environment Forest Science & Technology	Pithapuram	12 June 2024	Incumbent		JSP
Cabinet Ministers
3		Nara Lokesh	Human Resources Development Information Technology Electronics & Communication Real Time Governance	Mangalagiri	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
4		Kinjarapu Atchannaidu	Agriculture Co-operation Marketing Animal Husbandry Dairy Development & Fisheries	Tekkali	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
5		Kollu Ravindra	Mines & Geology Excise	Machilipatnam	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
6		Nadendla Manohar	Food & Civil Supplies Consumer Affairs	Tenali	12 June 2024	Incumbent		JSP
7		Ponguru Narayana	Municipal Administration & Urban Development	Nellore City	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
8		Vangalapudi Anitha	Home Affairs & Disaster Management	Payakaraopet	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
9		Satya Kumar Yadav	Health Family Welfare & Medical Education	Dharmavaram	12 June 2024	Incumbent		BJP
10		Nimmala Rama Naidu	Water Resources Development	Palakollu	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
11		N. M. D. Farooq	Law & Justice Minority Welfare	Nandyal	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
12		Anam Ramanarayana Reddy	Endowments	Atmakur	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
13		Payyavula Keshav	Finance Planning Commercial Taxes Legislative Affairs	Uravakonda	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
14		Anagani Satya Prasad	Revenue Registration & Stamps	Repalle	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
`15		Kolusu Parthasarathy	Housing Information & Public Relations	Nuzvid	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
16		Dola Sree Bala Veeranjaneya Swamy	Social Welfare Disabled & Senior Citizen Welfare Sachivalayam & Village Volunteer	Kondapi	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
17		Gottipati Ravi Kumar	Energy	Addanki	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
18		Kandula Durgesh	Tourism Culture Cinematography	Nidadavole	12 June 2024	Incumbent		JSP
19		Gummadi Sandhya Rani	Women & Child Welfare Tribal Welfare	Salur	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
20		B. C. Janardhan Reddy	Roads & Buildings Infrastructure & Investments.	Banaganapalle	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
21		T. G. Bharath	Industries & Commerce Food Processing	Kurnool	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
22		S. Savitha	B. C. Welfare Economically Weaker Sections Welfare Handlooms and Textiles	Penukonda	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
23		Vasamsetti Subhash	Labour Factories Boilers & Insurance Medical Services	Ramachandrapuram	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
24		Kondapalli Srinivas	Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty NRI Empowerment and Relations	Gajapathinagaram	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP
25		Mandipalli Ramprasad Reddy	Transport Youth & Sports	Rayachoti	12 June 2024	Incumbent		TDP