K. Subbarayan (born 10 August 1947) is a member of the

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of India. He represents the

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and is a member of the

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(CPI) political party. He represented the

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. He was also elected twice for the

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from the

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. The CPI in Tamil Nadu allied with the

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as part of the

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for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. The party was allocated two seats to contest under the terms of agreement, from which Subbarayan was selected to fight Coimbatore. The seat, whose economy was largely based on a textile industry that was contracting due to recession, had been won in

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and

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by C. P. Radhakrishnan of the

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. Aside from issues relating to unemployment, a major local issue in the 2004 campaign was the situation regarding drought and water supplies. Radhakrishnan's past success had come from exploiting communal tensions caused by a bombing campaign in the area by the now-banned Islamic fundamentalist

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group but this was no longer a significant issue. Subbarayan had previously been elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from the Tiruppur constituency for the periods 1984-89 and 1996-2001. Tiruppur is Subbarayan's home town. He was runner-up to C. Govindasamy of the

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in the 1989 election. Subbarayan decided not to contest the 2016 state assembly elections.

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