C. Sankar was an Indian politician and former

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

. He was elected to the Travancore-Cochin assembly as an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

candidate from Nagercoil constituency in

Kanyakumari district Kanniyakumari district is one of the 38 districts in Tamil Nadu state and the southernmost district in mainland India. It stands second in terms of population density among the districts of Tamil Nadu. It is also the richest district in Tamil Nad ...

in 1952 election. This was the first election from this constituency and it happened before

merged with

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil languag ...

.Elections to the Travancore-Cochin Legislative assembly- 1951 and to the Madras assembly constituencies in the Malabar area
(sankarchinnasay) , url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203143332/http://kerala.gov.in/ele_rep/1951.pdf , date=3 December 2008

References

People from Kanyakumari district Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu Living people Travancore–Cochin MLAs 1952–1954 Year of birth missing (living people) {{TamilNadu-INC-politician-stub