Periya Negamam is a panchayat town in Coimbatore district in the southern Indian State of Tamil Nadu. It comes under Pollachi Taluk and pollachi Assembly constituency. Negamam used to be a popular small town serving the commercial and transport needs of many small villages around it until 1980s. With the arrival of frequent city buses to Pollachi and Udumalpet as transportation mode,growth of Negamam remained stunted. Weekly market on Tuesday used to be a big crowd puller.
Ethirajulu Vajjaravelu or E. V. Velu is an Indian politician who has been serving as the Minister of Public Works,Highways and Minor Ports in the M. K. Stalin ministry of the state of Tamil Nadu since 2021. He formerly served as the Minister for Food in the state under M. Karunanidhi (2006–2011).
M. P. Saminathan is the Minister for Information &Publicity in the 16th Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was the Minister for Highways and Minor Ports in Tamil Nadu in the 13th Legislative Assembly.
Pollachi is the legislative assembly in Coimbatore district,which includes the city,Pollachi. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 123. This assembly constituency is a part of Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu,in India.
Valparai is a legislative assembly in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu,which includes the city,Valparai. Its State Assembly Constituency number is 124. It comes under Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency. This seat is reserved for scheduled caste. Valparai assembly constituency was part of Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu,in India.
K. P. Anbalagan also spelt as K. P. Anbazhagan is a Tamil Nadu politician from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party and the former Minister for Higher Education and Agriculture department in Tamil Nadu. KP Anbalagan was born on 30 April 1958 in Dharmapuri,Tamil Nadu,India. He won consecutively for 5 terms as a Member of Legislative Assembly of Palacode Constituency which record he holds with his party counterparts O.Panneerselvam and Pollachi V.Jayaraman.
Anitha R. Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician.
By-elections to nine state assembly constituencies were held in Tamil Nadu,in four separate phases. The election for Thirumangalam was held on 9 January and for Bargur,Thondamuthur,Ilaiyangudi,Cumbum,and Srivaikuntam constituencies on 18 August. Also,the election took place for Vandavasi and Tiruchendur constituency on 19 December 2009 and finally for Pennagaram constituency on 27 March 2010. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) defeated All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Thirumangalam in the first phase and kept the winning momentum in the following general election.
M. Gunasekaran is an Indian politician and has twice been elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from the Manamadurai constituency.
S. Damodaran is an Indian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.
D. Jayakumar is an Indian politician and was a Member of the 15th Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was the Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly until his resignation on 29 September 2012. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Royapuram constituency as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the 1991,2001,2006,2011 elections and 2016 elections for five terms. During the Tamil Nadu legislative Assembly 2021,he again contested in Royapuram Constituency and lost the election. He served in various cabinet positions starting from 1991 - Forests,Fisheries,Information Technology,Electricity and Finance. He is one among the senior leaders of AIADMK. In October 2020,he was appointed to 11 member Steering Committee of AIADMK and also serves as its Organizing Secretary. In the TN 2021 Election for Royapuram constituency,he was defeated by dmk candidate. He had represented Royapuram five times - 1991,2001,2006,2011 and 2016.
N. S. Palanisamy aka NSP was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Kinathukadavu constituency in 1991.
Chinnasamy Mahendran is an Indian politician and Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly elected from Madathukulam constituency in 2021 elections. He was previously elected to the 16th Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Parliament of India from Pollachi constituency as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 2014 election.
Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan is an Indian politician and a member of the 15th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He was elected from the Udumalpet constituency as a candidate of the AIADMK party. He served as the Chairman of Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited from 2011 to 2016. Again he was appointed the Chairman of Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation Limited in July 2019.
Ganapathi P. Rajkumar is an Indian politician active in the state of Tamil Nadu. He served as the 5th mayor of Coimbatore from 2014 to 2016. He contested in the 2024 Indian general election from the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency as a candidate of the DMK.
The Sixteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election was held on 6 April 2021,to elect representatives from the 234 constituencies in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) won the election,ending the decade-long reign of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). The DMK's leader M. K. Stalin became the eighth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,and the 12th Chief Minister since the 1956 reorganization. He replaced Edappadi K. Palaniswami of the AIADMK.
Kandasamy V P is an Indian politician. He is a member of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He was elected as a member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Sulur Constituency in May 2021.
P.R.G. Arunkumar is an Indian politician. He is a member of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He was elected as a member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Kavundampalayam Constituency in May 2021. He is the Coimbatore Suburban North District Organization Secretary of AIADMK. Previously he won in Coimbatore North constituency in the fifteenth legislative assembly.
Jayaram K R is an Indian Tamil politician. He won the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections representing AIDMK in Singanallur. He also holds the post of Secretary in the MGR Youth Wing of Coimbatore Urban District in All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
The Pollachi sexual assault case refers to a case of rape and extortion of numerous women by a gang in Pollachi,Coimbatore in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The gang would entice women into isolated places after befriending them on social media and sexually assault them and filmed the act. The videos were later used to blackmail the women for sexual favors or money. The gang came into spotlight after the family of a 19-year-old college student who claimed to had been sexually assaulted and blackmailed complained to the police. According to media accounts,at least 200 women are sexually assaulted in the very same manner and the victims were college and school teachers,doctors,higher secondary school students from all over the state. On the mobiles of the accused,police said they discovered dozens of video recordings of women being abused at a farmhouse belonging to one of the accused and some were leaked.
