Hyderabad, Sep 6 - All the ministers in the Andhra Pradesh cabinet were Sunday evening sworn-in afresh on the advise of the state governor following the death of chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Wednesday.

Governor N.D. Tiwari administered en mass oath of office and secrecy to all 34 ministers at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhavan, the official residence of the governor.

K. Rosaiah, who was installed as chief minister in what the party described as a 'temporary arrangement', and some top state officials attended the ceremony where the mood was sombre.

About a dozen ministers, who planned not to take oath afresh to press their demand for making the late chief minister's son Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy his successor, relented following intervention by YSR's close confidante K.V.P. Ramchandra Rao.

Rao told the ministers that their move would send wrong signals to the party's central leadership and mar the prospects of Jagan.

The ministers, along with Finance Minister Rosaiah were sworn-in May 25, five days after YSR took over as chief minister for the second consecutive term.

Immediately after Sunday evening's fresh oath-taking, Rosaiah and all ministers drove to the chief minister's camp office and consoled Jagan and other bereaved members of YSR's family. They returned to the state capital Sunday morning after YSR's burial at his home town Pulivendula in Kadapa district.

The state governor tendered the advise for fresh oath of the ministers on the opinion of constitutional experts.