C. P. Radhakrishnan

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C.P. Radha krishnan
Chairman, Coir Board of India, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (India)[1]
Assumed office
November, 2014
Prime MinisterNarendra Modi
Member of Indian Parliament
In office
1998–2004
Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee
Preceded byM. Ramanathan
Succeeded byK. Subbarayan
ConstituencyCoimbatore
Personal details
Born20th October , 1957
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s)Smt. R. Sumathi
ResidenceTiruppur
Alma materV.O.C College, Tuticorin
OccupationAgriculturist

C. P. Radhakrishnan (born 1957) an Indian politician, is from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Coimbatore. He is also the former state president of the party for Tamil Nadu. During his tenure as the state president of the party he did Yatra from Kanyakumari to Chennai covering thousands of kilometres to develop and strengthen the party in grassroot levels in Tamil Nadu which was considered a huge boost to the party in Tamil Nadu.[2] Presently he is the National Executive Member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was appointed the Kerala BJP Prabhari (In-Charge)[3] by the party's high command. He was Chairman of the All India Coir Board from 2016 to 2019,[4] which comes under the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). During his chairmanship of the All India Coir Board, he accomplished revolutionary things for the coir industry, including nearly tripling the exports of coir products from India to over a record 2,800 crores.

Radhakrishnan was a two-time member of the Lok Sabha.[5] He won on a BJP ticket in the 1998 and 1999 general elections in the aftermath of the 1998 Coimbatore bombings.[6]

Radhakrishnan won by a margin of over 150,000 votes in 1998 and a margin of 55,000 in the 1999 elections.[7]

In 1999, he stated that voters in Coimbatore did not need convincing to vote for the BJP.[8]

In 2004, he stated that the BJP did not stab any party in the back or cause rifts in ties with other parties.[9] He was among state leaders who worked on forming alliances in 2004 after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ended its ties with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.[10] Radhakrishnan later worked with the state unit to forge ties with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for the 2004 elections.[11]

In 2012, Radhakrishnan courted arrest in Mettupalayam for protesting inaction against culprits who had assaulted a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activist.[12]

He is among the senior-most and respected leaders of the BJP from the south and Tamil Nadu and has been associated with the organisation right from RSS and Jan Sangh from the age of 16 from 1973 for 48 years. In 2014, he was named the BJP candidate for Lok Sabha from Coimbatore Constituency and without the alliance of the two big parties of Tamil Nadu, the DMK and the AIADMK, he secured second place with over 3,89,000 votes, the highest among the Tamil Nadu BJP candidates, losing by the smallest margin among all candidates in Tamil Nadu. He was named the party's candidate once again for the 2019 election from Coimbatore.[13]

Electoral Performances[]

Year Election Party PC Name Result Votes gained Vote share%
1998 12th Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party  Coimbatore Winner 4,49,269
1999 13th Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party  Coimbatore Winner 4,30,068
2004 14th Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party  Coimbatore Runner 3,40,476
2014 16th Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party  Coimbatore Runner 3,89,701 33.12
2019 17th Lok Sabha Bharatiya Janata Party  Coimbatore Runner 3,92,007 31.34

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References[]

  1. ^ "Railways may use coir wood to make train seats and berths | Coimbatore News - Times of India".
  2. ^ "BJP: give scholarship to Hindu students". The Hindu. Nagercoil. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  3. ^ "BJP reshuffles state office-bearers; Radha Mohan Singh in-charge of UP, Baijayant Panda of Delhi and Assam | India News".
  4. ^ "Coirboard | :: COIR IS GREEN BUSINESS ::". coirboard.gov.in. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Verdict not a surprise, says Radhakrishnan". The Hindu. Coimbatore. 25 October 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  6. ^ KV, Prasad (5 May 2006). "BJP will have to start from scratch". The Hindu. Coimbatore. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Key Contests : CP Radhakrishnan vs K Subbarayan". Business Standard. Coimbatore. 1 May 2004. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  8. ^ "It's the party that sells, not candidates!". Coimbatore. September 1999. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  9. ^ "It's for DMK to explain,says C.P. Radhakrishnan". The Hindu. Chennai. 13 May 2003. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Vajpayee invites BJP leaders to Delhi for talks". The Hindu. Chennai. 14 September 2003. Archived from the original on 27 October 2003. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  11. ^ "TN BJP invites AIADMK to return to NDA". Deccan Herald. Chennai. 3 January 2004. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  12. ^ "Normality returns to Mettupalayam". The Hindu. Udhagamandalam. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  13. ^ Madhavan, Karthik (22 March 2019). "Familiar faces to fight it out in Coimbatore". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
Preceded by 12th Lok Sabha
1998–1999 		Succeeded by
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 13th Lok Sabha
1999–2004 		Succeeded by
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