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K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran
K. K. S. S. R. Ramachandran
Cabinet Minister ; Government of Tamil Nadu
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 7 May 2021
Minister	Revenue; District Revenue Establishment; Deputy Collectors; Disaster Management;
Governor	Banwarilal Purohit; R. N. Ravi
Chief Minister	M. K. Stalin
Cabinet Minister ; Government of Tamil Nadu
	In office; 2006–2011
Minister	Backward Classes; Most Backward Classes and De-notified Communities; Overseas Indians; Refugees and Evacuees; Handlooms and Textiles;
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
	Incumbent
	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 (generally known as Sattur Ramachandran) is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management, Government of Tamil Nadu. He had also been the minister for Backward Classes between 2006 and 2011 in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, India. He has been an MLA 9 times which record he holds with senior members like Duraimurugan and K. 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]

Political career

He has been elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly eight times and won on three consecutive occasions as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) candidate from the Sattur constituency. After the death of M. G. Ramachandran, he won the neighbouring Vilathikulam constituency as a candidate for the AIADMK (Jayalalitha faction). He started Anna Puratchi Thalaivar Munnetra Kazhagam with Su. Thirunavukkarasar in 1989. He again won Sattur, as a candidate for the then-new Anna Puratchi Thalaivar Munnetra Kazhagam (but register as the candidate of Thayaga 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 the Dravida 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.

Electoral Career

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Election

Elections	Constituency	Party	Result	Vote percentage	Opposition Candidate	Opposition Party	Opposition vote percentage
1977	Sattur	AIADMK	Won	43.24	M.Karmegasamy	INC	24.35
1980	Sattur	AIADMK	Won	69.40	S. Saudi Sundara Barati	DMK	44.10
1984	Sattur	AIADMK	Won	51.03	S. S. Karuppasamy	DMK	44.60
1989	Vilathikulam	AIADMK(J)	Won	36.59	S. Kumaragurubara Ramanathan	DMK	27.97
1991	Sattur	TMK	Won	36.59	Sannasi Karuppasamy	AIADMK	27.97
1996	Sattur	AIADMK	Lost	36.34	S. Vijayakumar	DMK	43.20
2001	Sattur	DMK	Won	42.91	A. Rajendran	INC	39.64
2006	Sattur	DMK	Won	49.58	G. Chockeswaran	AIADMK	35.60
2011	Aruppukottai	DMK	Lost	44.05	Vaigaichelvan	AIADMK	51.15
2016	Aruppukottai	DMK	Won	49.41	Vaigaichelvan	AIADMK	38.46
2021	Aruppukottai	DMK	Won	53.18	Vaigaichelvan	AIADMK	30.38