K. A. Sengottaiyan

K. A. Sengottaiyan
Minister of School Education, Sports and Youth Welfare (Government of Tamil Nadu)
Assumed office
2017
Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Preceded by K. Pandiarajan
Constituency Gobichettipalayam
Personal details
Born (1948-01-09) 9 January 1948
Kullampalayam, Gobichettipalayam, Erode district, Tamil Nadu, India
Political party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Residence Greenways Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu, India

K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 1948) is an Indian politician. Currently, he is the Minister for School Education in the Tamil Nadu Government. He also serves as the party presidium chairman of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

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 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 Chief Minister in place of O. Paneerselvam, Sengottaiyan replaced K. Pandiarajan as 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]

References

  1. ↑ "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu" (PDF). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-14.
  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 2017-05-04.
  8. ↑ Mariappan, Julie (16 February 2017). "31-member Palaniswami cabinet to be sworn in at 4.30pm". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
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