Anitha R. Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician, Minister of Tamil Nadu and Member of the

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the Assembl ...

elected from Tiruchendur constituency as

AIADMK The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief m ...

candidate in 2001,2006 and as DMK candidate in 2009(Bye-election),2011,2016 and 2021. He was also former Minister for Animal Husbandry and Minister for Housing & Urban Development in the 2001 AIADMK government. He was a member of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in

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until being expelled for alleged anti-party activities on 30 July 2009 and resigned from his MLA Post after being expelled from AIADMK. After his expulsion from the AIADMK, Radhakrishnan accepted an invitation to join the

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

in 2009. In the 2009 Bye-election, he again contest as a DMK Candidate and won in the Tiruchendur constituency Even though there was an anti-incumbency wave against the DMK, he won the 2011 Assembly election in Tiruchendur constituency. On 14 May 2015, Radhakrishnan was suspended by the DMK after he and

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greeted AIADMK leader

Jayalalithaa Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 9 February 1989 to 5 December 2 ...

after she was acquitted in the disproportionate asset case against her. In the elections of 2016, Radhakrishnan won again in Tiruchendur, beating

Sarath Kumar Sarathkumar Ramanathan (born 14 July 1954) is an Indian actor, politician, filmmaker, and singer. He has acted in more than 130 Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. He has won two Tamil Nadu State Film Awards and three Filmfare Awards S ...

of the AISMK. In 2021 assembly election , he again won from Tiruchendur constituency and he was appointed as

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Tamil Nadu Government profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Radhakrishnan, Anitha R. Living people All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians 1952 births Tamil Nadu MLAs 2001–2006 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2011–2016 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026