K. Ramachandran

K. Ramachandran (born 9 August 1951) is an Indian politician and the former minister for Khadi in Tamil Nadu. He was born in Coonoor. He has finished his school education.Ramachandran was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate from Gudalur constituency in 2006 election. In the 2011 elections, he became MLA for the Coonoor constituency.The Coonoor seat had long been held by the DMK but supporters of Ramachandran were incensed that he was deselected for the 2016 elections and threatened to rebel. The new candidate was B. M. Mubarak, who had also been given the post of district secretary of the party in Nilgiris after Ramachandran had been removed from it in 2014. The DMK lost the seat.

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