First Ramachandran ministry

First Ramachandran ministry
4th Ministry of Tamil Nadu
M.G.R.
Date formed	30 June 1977
Date dissolved	17 February 1980
People and organisations
Head of state	Governor Prabhudas Patwari
Head of government	M. G. Ramachandran
Member parties	AIADMK
Status in legislature	Majority
Opposition party	DMK
Opposition leader	M. Karunanidhi
History
Election	1977
Legislature term	5 years
Predecessor	Second Karunanidhi ministry
Successor	Second Ramachandran ministry

After the sixth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, held in 1977, a new ministry with M. G. Ramachandran as chief minister was formed on 30 June 1977.

Cabinet ministers

Name	Designation	Party
Chief minister
M. G. Ramachandran	Chief minister	AIADMK
Cabinet ministers
Nanjil K. Manoharan	Minister for Finance	AIADMK
Panruti S. Ramachandran	Minister for electricity
K. A. Krishnaswamy	Minister for co-operation
S. D. Somasundaram	Minister for Revenue
G. R. Edmund	Minister for food and co-operation
R. M. Veerappan	Minister for information and Hindu religious endowments
K. Narayanaswamy Mudaliar	Minister for law
C. Aranganayagam	Minister for education
K. Kalimuthu	Minister for local administration
S. Raghavanandham	Minister for labour
P. Soundarapandian	Minister for Harijan welfare and industries
C. Ponnaiyan	Minister for transport
P. Kolandaivelu	Minister for agriculture and irrigation
K. Raja Mohammed	Minister for rural industries
R. Soundararajan	Minister for health
PT Saraswathy	Minister for social welfare
Subbulakshmi Jagadeesan	Minister for khadi