K._A._Sengottaiyan

Who is this?

Kullampalayam Arthanari Sengottaiyan (born 9 January 1948), better known as K. A. Sengottaiyan, is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He is currently the chief coordinator of the high level administrative committee of Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK). He has had a long political career spanning over five decades, primarily with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). He was expelled from the AIADMK and later joined the TVK in November 2025. Sengottaiyan was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, for the first time during the 1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election from Sathyamangalam constituency. He was elected to the assembly a record nine times, including eight times from the Gobichettipalayam constituency. He has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1977 to 2025, except for a period between 1996 to 2006. In the 16th Tamil Nadu Assembly, he was the longest serving member of the assembly along with Durai Murugan. In 1992, he falsely claimed that the violence in the Vachathi case, where police and forest officials committed brutal atrocities against villagers, was fabricated. He also allegedly attempted to disrupt the identification parade meant to identify the perpetrators. Sengottaiyan has held various portfolios as a minister in the Tamil Nadu Government. He served as the minister of transport from 1991 to 1996, minister of agriculture in 2011, minister of Information Technology from 2011 to 2012, and minister of revenue in 2012 under the chief minister-ship of J. Jayalalithaa. He later served as the minister of school education and youth welfare and sports development from May 2017 to May 2021 in the Palaniswami ministry. Sengottaiyan served as the leader of the house in the Tamil Nadu assembly from February 2017 to January 2018. He also served as the deputy leader of opposition two times. He has also held various leadership positions with the AIADMK.

Career

1. 1948
   Born

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Kullampalayam
• •Citizenship: India
• •Known as: politician