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Place of Birth: Viluppuram District, Tamil Nadu, India
About S. Jagathrakshakan
- S.
- Jagathrakshakan (born 15 August 1950 in Kalingamali, Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu) is an Indian Tamil businessman and politician.
- He did his matriculation at Valudavur.
- He was a member of Lok Sabha of India from Arakkonam constituency of Tamil Nadu and has been elected twice since 1999.
- He was the minister of state for commerce and industry from November 2012 to March 2013.
- He is also the chairman of Shree Balaji Medical College and Hospital.
- He is the owner of Dr.
- Rela Hospital and Institute.
- He has authored 30 books, one of which was released by Mother Teresa. In his political career, Jagathrakshakan has been elected once to the Tamil Nadu state assembly during the 1980 elections and to the Lok Sabha during the 1984 elections from the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) party.
- He also headed the ADMK parliamentary party from 1985–89.
- He won the Arakkonam lok sabha constituency during 1999 and 2009 elections from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party.
- He started a Vanniyar(vanniyar kula sathriyan) caste based party called Veera Vanniyar Peravai in 2004, which became Jananayaga Munnetra Kazhagam in August 2004 and merged with DMK in 2009. Jagathrakshakan has been a centre of controversy in various issues like Coal scam exposed in March 2012 where he is alleged to have utilized his political clout for illegal coal allocation for his company in 2007.
- He is believed to have amassed assets from 5 Crore in 2009 to 70 crores in 2011, which is the highest percentage rise of assets among all ministers in the central cabinet.
- In a sting operation conducted in June 2009, it was exposed that one of his medical colleges collected 20 lakh rupees for MBBS.
- He was elected to the lok Sabha from Arakkonam lok Sabha constituency screening Dravida Munnetra kazhagam (DMK) in the general election 2019.
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