K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran | |
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| Cabinet Minister Government of Tamil Nadu | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2021 | |
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| Governor | Banwarilal Purohit R. N. Ravi |
| Chief Minister | M. K. Stalin |
| Cabinet Minister Government of Tamil Nadu | |
| In office 2006–2011 | |
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| Governor | Surjit Singh Barnala |
| Chief Minister | Karunanidhi |
| Minister for Public Works | |
| In office 1985–1988 | |
| Minister for Cooperation | |
| In office 1980–1985 | |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2016 | |
| Constituency | Aruppukottai |
| In office 1989–1991 | |
| Constituency | Vilathikulam |
| In office 1977–1984 | |
| Constituency | Sattur |
| In office 1991–2011 | |
| Constituency | Sattur |
K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran Reddiyar (generally known asSattur Ramachandran) is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Tamil Nadu. He had also been the minister forBackward Classes between 2006 and 2011 in theTamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, India. He has been an MLA 9 times which record he holds with senior members likeDuraimurugan andK. A. Sengottaiyan among currently serving MLAs, with a political career spanning over 40 years. His full name is Kopalapuram Kanthasamy Subbu Reddiyar Ranganathan Ramachandran.[1][2]
He has been elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly eight times and won on three consecutive occasions as anAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) candidate from theSattur constituency. After the death ofM. G. Ramachandran, he won the neighbouringVilathikulam constituency as a candidate for the AIADMK (Jayalalitha faction). He started Anna Puratchi Thalaivar Munnetra Kazhagam withSu. Thirunavukkarasar in 1989. He again won Sattur, as a candidate for the then-new Anna Puratchi Thalaivar Munnetra Kazhagam (but registered as the candidate ofThayaga Marumalarchi Kazhagam) and subsequently suffered his first defeat after re-joining and merged his party with AIADMK in 1996. Switching allegiance once more - this time to theDravida Munnetra Kazhagam - he won the next two elections, in 2001 and 2006.[3]
He was the Minister for Cooperation and Public Works Department in the M. G. Ramachandran Cabinet between 1984 and 1987. In M. Karunanidhi Cabinet he was appointed the Minister for Health, and later appointed the Minister for Backward class welfare between 2006 and 2011. Currently, he is the Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management.
| Year | Constituency | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Opponent Party | Opponent Votes | % | Result | Margin | % | ||
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| 1977 | Sattur | AIADMK | 38,772 | 43.24 | M. Karmegasamy | INC | 21,830 | 24.35 | Won | 16,942 | 18.90 | ||
| 1980 | 54,720 | 69.40 | S. Saudi Sundara Barati | DMK | 43,795 | 44.10 | Won | 10,925 | 13.86 | ||||
| 1984 | 58,745 | 51.03 | S. S. Karuppasamy | 51,338 | 44.60 | Won | 7,407 | 6.43 | |||||
| 1989 | Vilathikulam | AIADMK(J) | 33,951 | 36.59 | S. Kumaragurubara Ramanathan | 25,955 | 27.97 | Won | 7,996 | 8.62 | |||
| 1991 | Sattur | TMK | 59,942 | 36.59 | Sannasi Karuppasamy | AIADMK | 57,703 | 27.97 | Won | 2,239 | 1.28 | ||
| 1996 | AIADMK | 49,608 | 36.34 | S. Vijayakumar | DMK | 58,972 | 43.20 | Lost | -9,364 | -6.86 | |||
| 2001 | DMK | 57,953 | 42.91 | A. Rajendran | INC | 53,538 | 39.64 | Won | 4,415 | 3.27 | |||
| 2006 | 73,918 | 49.58 | G. Chockeswaran | AIADMK | 53,073 | 35.60 | Won | 20,845 | 13.98 | ||||
| 2011 | Aruppukottai | 65,908 | 44.05 | Vaigaichelvan | 76,546 | 51.15 | Lost | -10,638 | -7.11 | ||||
| 2016 | 81,485 | 49.41 | 63,431 | 38.46 | Won | 18,054 | 10.95 | ||||||
| 2021 | 91,040 | 53.18 | 52,006 | 30.38 | Won | 39,034 | 28.80 | ||||||
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