K. A. Sengottaiyan

K. A. Sengottaiyan
K. A. Sengottaiyan
Minister for School Education,Youth Welfare and Sports Development
	In office; 17 February 2017 – 02 May 2021
Minister for Information and Technology
	In office; 15 July 2011 – 7 November 2012
Minister for Agriculture
	In office; 15 May 2011 – 14 July 2014
Minister for Transport
	In office; 24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996
Member of Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2021
Constituency	Gobichettipalayam constituency
	In office; 2006 – 2021 (3 terms)
Constituency	Gobichettipalayam constituency
	In office; 1980 – 1996 (4 terms)
Constituency	Gobichettipalayam constituency
	In office; 1977–1980
Constituency	Sathyamangalam constituency
Personal details
Born	9 January 1948 (age 77); Kullampalayam, Madras State, India
Political party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Residence	Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu, India;

K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 9 January 1948) is an Indian politician. He is the former Minister for School Education in the Government of Tamil Nadu. He also served as the party presidium chairman of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He is currently the longest serving ADMK MLA along with his opposition counterpart Duraimurugan.

He is an incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Gobichettipalayam constituency in Erode district.^[1] Previously, he was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Sathyamangalam constituency in 1977 election^[2] and from Gobichettipalayam constituency in 1980, 1984, 1989 (Jayalalitha faction), 1991, 2006, 2011 and 2016.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Sengottaiyan was the Minister for Transport from 1991 to 1996 during the first tenure of Jayalalithaa cabinet. He was again the Minister for Agriculture until November 2011 when a cabinet reshuffle by Jayalalithaa resulted in that portfolio being given to S. Damodaran and Sengottiyan taking over the Information Technology portfolio from R. B. Udhaya Kumar.^[7]

In February 2017, following the appointment of Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the Chief Minister in place of O. Paneerselvam, Sengottaiyan replaced K. Pandiarajan as the Minister for School Education. Pandiarajan was the only cabinet minister to have supported Paneerselvam during a party dispute in which V. K. Sasikala was being touted as a possible Chief Minister. The appointment of Sengottaiyan was the only change made to the cabinet by Palaniswami at that time.^[8] He allegedly punched the former Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi in his face during the infamous 1989 violent clash in assembly.^[9]

Elections contested and results[edit]

Elections	Constituency	Result
1977	Sathyamangalam constituency	Won
1980	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1984	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1989	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1991	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1996	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Lost
2006	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2011	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2016	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2021	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won

References[edit]

↑ "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2014.
↑ 1977 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
↑ 1980 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
↑ 1984 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
↑ 1991 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
↑ 2006 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
↑ "Jayalalithaa sacks six Tamil Nadu ministers". NDTV. PTI. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
↑ Mariappan, Julie (16 February 2017). "31-member Palaniswami cabinet to be sworn in at 4.30pm". The Economic Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
↑ https:www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/nothing-can-beat-1989-violence/article17326723.ece/amp/

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[1] "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 January 2014.

[2] 1977 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India

[3] 1980 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India

[4] 1984 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India

[5] 1991 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India

[6] 2006 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India

[7] "Jayalalithaa sacks six Tamil Nadu ministers". NDTV. PTI. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2017.

[8] Mariappan, Julie (16 February 2017). "31-member Palaniswami cabinet to be sworn in at 4.30pm". The Economic Times. Retrieved 5 May 2017.

[9] ttps:www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/nothing-can-beat-1989-violence/article17326723.ece/amp/

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v t e Government of Tamil Nadu
Executive	Governor: Banwarilal Purohit
Council of Ministers	Edappadi K. Palanisamy O. Panneerselvam Dindigul C. Sreenivasan K. A. Sengottaiyan Sellur K. Raju P. Thangamani S. P. Velumani D. Jayakumar C. Ve. Shanmugam K. P. Anbalagan Dr. V. Saroja M. C. Sampath K. C. Karuppannan R. Kamaraj O. S. Manian Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan Dr. C. Vijaya Baskar R. Doraikkannu Kadambur C. Raju R. B. Udhaya Kumar Vellamandi N. Natarajan K. C. Veeramani K. T. Rajenthra Bhalaji P. Benjamin M. R. Vijayabhaskar Dr. Nilofer Kafeel Dr. M. Manikandan V. M. Rajalakshmi K. Pandiarajan G. Baskaran Sevvoor S. Ramachandran S. Valarmathi P. Balakrishna Reddy
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