K. A. Sengottaiyan | |
|---|---|
 Sengottaiyan in 2017 | |
| Minister for School Education, Youth Welfare and Sports Development | |
| In office 18 December 2016 –2 May 2021 | |
| Chief Minister | Edappadi K. Palaniswami |
| Preceded by | Mafoi Pandiarajan |
| Succeeded by | Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi |
| Minister for Revenue | |
| In office 26 January 2012 –18 July 2012 | |
| Minister for Information and Technology | |
| In office 4 November 2011 –26 January 2012 | |
| Minister for Agriculture | |
| In office 16 May 2011 –4 November 2011 | |
| Minister for Transport | |
| In office 24 June 1991 –12 May 1996 | |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 2006 | |
| Constituency | Gobichettipalayam constituency |
| In office 1980–1996 | |
| Constituency | Gobichettipalayam constituency |
| In office 1977–1980 | |
| Constituency | Sathyamangalam constituency |
| Leader of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly House | |
| In office 14 February 2017 –6 January 2018 | |
| CM | Edappadi K. Palaniswami |
| Preceded by | O. Panneerselvam |
| Succeeded by | O. Panneerselvam |
| 8th Presidium Chairman of AIADMK | |
| In office 10 February 2017 –20 August 2017 | |
| General Secretary | V. K. Sasikala (Interim) |
| Preceded by | E. Madhusudhanan |
| Succeeded by | E. Madhusudhanan |
| Headquarters Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
| In office 14 August 2006 –18 July 2012 [1] | |
| General Secretary | J. Jayalalithaa |
| Headquarters Manager | P. Mahalingam |
| Preceded by | D. Jayakumar |
| Succeeded by | P. Palaniappan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 January 1948 Kullampalayam,Madras State,India |
| Political party | All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Residence(s) | |
K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 9 January 1948) is an Indian politician. He is the former Minister for School Education in the Government of Tamil Nadu. He also served as the party presidium chairman and headquarters secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He is currently the longest serving ADMK MLA along with his opposition counterpart Duraimurugan.
He is an incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Gobichettipalayam constituency in Erode district. [2] Previously,he was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Sathyamangalam constituency in 1977 election [3] and from Gobichettipalayam constituency in 1980,1984,1989 (Jayalalitha faction),1991,2006,2011 and 2016. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Sengottaiyan was the Minister for Transport from 1991 to 1996 during the first tenure of Jayalalithaa 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. [8]
From 2006 to 2012,he served as the headquarters secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. [9] [10] Later in 2012,he was removed from his ministerial berth,party positions and basic membership by the chief minister due to personal allegations involving his P.A and actress Sukanya [11] by his own family to the chief minster. [12] [13] He remained sidelined from the party until the death of J.Jayalalithaa on 5,December,2016
In February 2017,following the appointment of Edappadi K. Palaniswami as the Chief Minister in place of O. Paneerselvam,Sengottaiyan replaced K. Pandiarajan as the Minister for School Education. Pandiarajan was the only cabinet minister to have supported Paneerselvam during a party dispute in which V. K. Sasikala 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. [14] He allegedly punched the former Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi in his face during the infamous 1989 violent clash in assembly. [15]
