R. S. Raja Kannappan formerly known as S. Kannappan is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) candidate from Tiruppattur (194) constituency

Tiruppattur (194) (State Assembly Constituency)

Tirupattur is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. Elections were not held in year 1957 and 1962.- Madras State :- Tamil Nadu :- References :...

 in 1991 election

Tamil Nadu state assembly election, 1991

The tenth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 24 June 1991. The Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - Indian National Congress alliance won the elections in a landslide and ADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa became the chief minister. This was her first term in office...

. He served as minister of Public Works during 1991-1996. He later founded the Makkal Tamil Desam

Makkal Tamil Desam Katchi

Makkal Tamil Desam Katchi , generally just called Makkal Tamil Desam is a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. MTD was founded on August 22, 2000. MTD has its base amongst the Yadava caste in the southern parts of the state. The Tamil Nadu Yadava Mahasabai supported the formation of...

 (MTD) party. The MTD contested the 2001 election

Tamil Nadu state assembly election, 2001

The twelfth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on May 10, 2001. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam -led front won the elections and its leader, J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Chief Minister, even though she could not legally run as MLA in this election. She was unanimously...

 as a junior partner in the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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 (DMK) led front. In 2006, Kannappan dissolved his party and joined the DMK. He contested and won the 2006 election

Tamil Nadu state assembly election, 2006

The thirteenth legislative assembly election, of Tamil Nadu was held on May 8, 2006. It was held for all 234 constituencies to elect the government in the state of for the following five years. The votes were counted three days later on May 11, 2006 and all the results were out by the end of the day...

 from the Ilaiyangudi constituency

Ilaiyangudi (State Assembly Constituency)

Ilaiyangudi is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu....

 as a DMK candidate. In February 2009 he resigned from DMK and as an MLA. He joined the ADMK and contested the 2009 Indian general elections

Indian general election, 2009

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 from the Sivaganga parliamentary constituency

Sivaganga (Lok Sabha constituency)

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. He was defeated by the Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

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 (INC) candidate P. Chidambaram

P. Chidambaram

P. Chidambaram or Chidambaram Palaniappan, sometimes written Palaniappan Chidambaram is an Indian politician with the Indian National Congress and present Union Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of India. Previously he was the Finance Minister of India from May 2004 to November 2008...

in a close election.