Raja Kannappan
Raja Kannappan | |
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| Minister for Forests and Khadi | |
| Assumed office 27 April 2025 | |
| Chief Minister | M. K. Stalin |
| Preceded by | K. Ponmudy |
| Minister for Milk and Dairy Development | |
| In office 28 September 2024 – 27 April 2025 | |
| Chief Minister | M. K. Stalin |
| Preceded by | Mano Thangaraj |
| Succeeded by | Mano Thangaraj |
| Minister for Higher Education | |
| In office 21 December 2023 – 22 March 2024 | |
| Chief Minister | M. K. Stalin |
| Preceded by | K. Ponmudy |
| Succeeded by | K. Ponmudy |
| Minister of Backward Classes Welfare | |
| In office 29 March 2022 – 28 September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | S. S. Sivasankar |
| Succeeded by | Meyyanathan Siva V |
| Minister of Transport | |
| In office 7 May 2021 – 29 March 2022 | |
| Chief Minister | M. K. Stalin |
| Preceded by | M. R. Vijayabhaskar |
| Succeeded by | S. S. Sivasankar |
| Minister of Public Works, Highways and Electricity | |
| In office 24 June 1991 – 12 May 1996 | |
| Chief Minister | J. Jayalalithaa |
| Member of Legislative Assembly, Tamil Nadu | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
| Preceded by | S. Pandi |
| Constituency | Mudukulathur constituency |
| In office 1991–1996 | |
| Constituency | Tiruppattur constituency |
| In office 2006–2009 | |
| Constituency | Ilayankudi constituency |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adhappadaiki, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Party | DMK |
| Parent | Sellam |
| Occupation | Politics & Agriculture |
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R. S. Raja Kannappan, formerly known as S. Kannappan, is an Indian politician and Minister for Backward Classes Welfare and Higher Education. He also served as the Minister for Khadi and Village Industries from 2022 to 2023, Minister of Transport, Nationalised Transport, Motor Vehicles Act in the period 2021- March 2022 and also former Minister of Public Works, Highways and Electricity during 1991–1996. He joined the party DMK in February 2020.