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{{Short description|Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Kalasapakkam constituency}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = "AGRI" S. S. Krishnamoorthy
|image =
|office1 = [[Minister (government)|Minister]] for [[Agriculture]] (Government) of [[Tamil Nadu]]
|term1 = June 2014 - March 2015
|office2 = [[Minister (government)|Minister]] of [[Food]] (Government of Tamil Nadu)
|term2 = 2011 - 2012
|office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
|constituency3 = [[Kalasapakkam (State Assembly constituency (|Kalasapakkam]]
|term3 = 2006 - 2016
}}
'''Agri S. S. Krishnamoorthy''' is an Indian politician and was a member of the [[Fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu|14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from [[Kalasapakkam (State Assembly Constituency)|Kalasapakkam constituency]].<ref>{{cite web|title=List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011|url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |accessdate=2017-04-26}}</ref> As a representative of the [[Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]], he was previously elected to the same constituency in the 2006 elections.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report of Tamil Nadu 2006 Elections|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_TN_2006.pdf|publisher=Election Commission of India}}</ref>

The [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|elections of 2016]] resulted in his constituency being won by [[V. Panneerselvam]].<ref>{{cite web |title=15th Assembly Members |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/15thassembly/members/051_100.html |accessdate=2017-04-26}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Born in an agricultural family of Tuluva Vellala commune of Elathur village in the present Kalasapakkam taluk of Tiruvannamalai district on 26 September 1959. Father S. Sundaresan and Mother Jagadambal. Married to Vijayakumari and is father of three children. He served as Chairman of Kalasapakkam Panchayat Union in the initial part of his career.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

==Political career==
He was re-elected from Kalasapakkam constituency as a Member of Legislative Assembly in 2011 assembly election on an AIADMK ticket and was included in the [[Jayalalithaa]] ministry as Food minister. Later his portfolio was altered and he was given Commercial Taxes department. Again in a short period his portfolio was changed to Education and within a week from this change he was dropped from the cabinet. He is an agricultural graduate and thus earned the nickname 'Agri'.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Krishnamoorthy replaced [[S. Damodaran]] as Minister for Agriculture in the [[Government of Tamil Nadu]] on 19 May 2014, when Jayalalithaa reshuffled her government.<ref>{{cite news |work=DNA India |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-jayalalithaa-sacks-three-ministers-six-aiadmk-functionaries-1989827 |title=Jayalalithaa sacks three ministers, six AIADMK functionaries |date=19 May 2014 |agency=PTI |accessdate=2017-05-02}}</ref> He was removed from the post in 2015 when a department official committed suicide and it was alleged that Krishnamoorthy had been placing undue pressure on him.<ref>{{cite news |work=NDTV |title=Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Names 50 District Secretaries of AIADMK |agency=PTI |date=8 October 2015 |url=http://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/tamil-nadu-cm-jayalalithaa-names-50-district-secretaries-of-aiadmk-1229415 |accessdate=2017-05-04}}</ref>

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