Residence Gobichettipalayam Role Politician | Name K. Sengottaiyan Religion Hinduism | |
Tamilnadu Updates:Palani Swamy and K. A. Sengottaiyan Meet Governor Vidyasagar Rao
K. A. Sengottaiyan (born 1948) is an Indian politician. Currently, he is the Minister for School Education in the Tamil Nadu Government. He also serves as the party presidium chairman of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
He is an incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Gobichettipalayam constituency in Erode district. 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 and from Gobichettipalayam constituency in 1980, 1984, 1989 (Jayalalitha faction), 1991, 2006, 2011 and 2016.
Sengottaiyan was Minister for Agriculture until November 2011 when a cabinet reshuffle by Jayalalithaa resulted in that portfolio being given to S. Damodaran and Sengottiyan taking over the Information Technology portfolio from R. B. Udhaya Kumar.
In February 2017, following the appointment of Edappadi K. Palaniswami as Chief Minister in place of O. Paneerselvam, Sengottaiyan replaced K. Pandiarajan as 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.
