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K. A. Sengottaiyan
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
	Incumbent
	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)
Succeeded by	E. Madhusudhanan
Headquarters Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
	In office; 14 August 2006 – 18 July 2012
General Secretary	J. Jayalalithaa
Headquarters Manager	P. Mahalingam
Preceded by	D. Jayakumar
Succeeded by	P. Palaniappan
Personal details
Born	9 January 1948 (age 76); Kullampalayam, Madras State, India
Political party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Residence(s)	Gobichettipalayam, Tamil Nadu, India;

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]

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.^[11] He allegedly punched the former Tamil Nadu CM Karunanidhi in his face during the infamous 1989 violent clash in assembly.^[12]

Elections contested and results

Elections	Constituency	Result
1977	Sathyamangalam constituency	Won
1980	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1984	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1989	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1991	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
1996	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Lost
2006	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2011	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2016	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won
2021	Gobichettipalayam constituency	Won