K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 9 January 1948) is an Indian politician. He is the former Minister for School Education in the

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. He also served as the party presidium chairman of the

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. He is currently the longest serving ADMK MLA along with his opposition counterpart

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. He is an incumbent

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from Gobichettipalayam constituency in Erode district. Previously, he was elected to the

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as an

candidate from Sathyamangalam constituency in

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election and from Gobichettipalayam constituency in

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1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...

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(Jayalalitha faction),

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

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and

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. Sengottaiyan was the Minister for Transport from 1991 to 1996 during the first tenure of

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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 Sengottaiyan taking over the Information Technology portfolio from R. B. Udhaya Kumar. From 2001 to 2012, He served as the headquarters secretary of the

. In February 2017, following the appointment of

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as the Chief Minister in place of O. Paneerselvam, Sengottaiyan replaced

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as the Minister for School Education. Pandiarajan was the only cabinet minister to have supported Paneerselvam during a party dispute in which

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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. He allegedly punched the former Tamil Nadu CM

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in his face during the infamous 1989 violent clash in assembly.

Elections contested and results

References

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