New Delhi, India

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu will take oath as Andhra Pradesh chief minister for the third time on Wednesday (June 12) at 9.27 am (IST), the chief minister's office of the south Indian state informed on Saturday. The oath ceremony is scheduled to take place near Kesarapalli IT Park, Gannavaram, Krishna District. 

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Naidu first became the CM in 1995 and went on to rule till 2004. He was replaced by the late YS Rajasekhar Reddy.

Naidu will become the chief minister again after a gap of five years. 

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Results of Andhra Pradesh Assembly election, which were held along with Lok Sabha polls,  were announced on June 4. TDP registered an emphatic win, with the party along with its partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Jana Sena Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning 164 out of 175 assembly seats in the state. YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) won 11 seats. 

Recent media reports, citing a senior TDP leader on condition of anonymity, said that the BJP and Jana Sena Party would join the Naidu cabinet. However, there's no confirmation yet on the seat-sharing scenario. 

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"In all probability, Jana Sena Party president and actor Pawan Kalyan, who got elected from Pithapuram assembly constituency with a huge majority, will be offered deputy chief minister post apart from cabinet berths to his senior colleague Nadendla Manohar and a couple of other party MLAs," Hindustan Times reported citing a TDP leader. 

Naidu is poised to make history as the first Andhra Pradesh CM to win a fourth term, surpassing the mark set by his father-in-law and TDP founder, NT Rama Rao, who served as chief minister of the then-united Andhra Pradesh three times. 

(With inputs from agencies)