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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}
{{use Indian English|date=May 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Kadambur C. Raju
| image =
| office = Member of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 23 May 2011
| term_end =
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = {{ubl|[[J. Jayalalithaa]]|[[O. Panneerselvam]]|[[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]]|[[M. K. Stalin]]}}
| predecessor = [[L. Radhakrishnan]]
| successor =
| constituency = [[Kovilpatti (state assembly constituency)|Kovilpatti]]
| office1 = [[Government of Tamil Nadu|Minister of Information and Publicity]]
| term_start1 = 23 May 2016
| term_end1 = 6 May 2021
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = {{ubl|[[J. Jayalalithaa]]|[[O. Panneerselvam]]|[[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]]}}
| predecessor1 = [[K. T. Rajenthra Bhalaji]]
| successor1 = [[M. P. Saminathan]]
| constituency1 = [[Kovilpatti (state assembly constituency)|Kovilpatti]]
| office2 = Organization Secretary of Thoothukudi North District
| term_start2 = 2 March 2019
| term_end2 =
| 1blankname2 = Coordinator
| 1namedata2 = [[O. Panneerselvam]]
| 2blankname2 = Joint Coordinator
| 2namedata2 = [[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|8|20}}
| birth_place = K. Chidambarapuram, [[Madras State]], [[India]]<br />{{smaller|(present-day [[Tamil Nadu]])}}
| party = [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| spouse =
| children = 2
| parents =
| residence = Thamirabarani Illam<br>15, [[Raja Annamalaipuram]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| education = [[Teacher education|D.T.Ed.]], [[Pre-university course|PUC]]
| profession = {{hlist|Teacher|politician}}
}}

'''Kadambur C. Raju''' (born 20 Aug 1959) is an Indian politician and the member of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Kovilpatti (state assembly constituency)|Kovilpatti]] constituency. He represents the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (AIADMK) party.

Raju won the Kovilpatti seat in the [[Fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu|14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] in the [[2011 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2011 elections]].<ref>{{cite web|title=List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011 |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320103427/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf |archive-date=2012-03-20 }}</ref> He was initially deselected from contesting the seat in the [[2016 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2016 elections]], with then AIADMK General Secretary [[J. Jayalalithaa]] preferring to let K. Ramanujam Ganesh stand. However, when it was understood that the experienced [[Vaiko]] was to stand there for the [[People's Welfare Front]], Jayalalithaa chose to reinstate Raju because he was a more potent electoral force than Ganesh. A few days later, Vaiko announced that he would not contest the constituency.<ref>{{cite news |title=Complex scene |date=27 May 2016 |work=Frontline |url=http://www.frontline.in/the-nation/complex-scene/article8581042.ece |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref> Raju won the seat with 428 more votes than his nearest rival.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kovilpatti (Tamil Nadu) Election Results 2016 |publisher=Infobase |url=http://www.elections.in/tamil-nadu/assembly-constituencies/kovilpatti.html |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref>

Jayalalithaa appointed Raju as Minister for Information and Publicity in May 2016. This was his first cabinet post.<ref>{{cite news |title= Jayalalithaa and her 28-member Cabinet to be sworn in on May 23 |date=21 May 2016 |work=The Hindu |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/list-of-ministers-in-jayalalithaa-cabinet/article8630370.ece |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref> Soon after Jayalalithaa died in December 2016, and despite being in the cabinet, Raju rebelled against then Chief Minister [[O. Paneerselvam]]. He demanded that [[V. K. Sasikala]] should become Chief Minister, arguing that the post and that of party general secretary, which Sasikala held, had always been combined since the party's foundation by [[M. G. Ramachandran]].<ref>{{cite news |title=3 TN ministers want CM to make way for Sasikala Natarajan |work=The Asian Age |date=2 January 2017 |url=http://www.asianage.com/india/politics/020117/3-tamil-nadu-ministers-want-cm-panneerselvam-to-make-way-for-sasikala.html |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref> Although Sasikala did become party leader in early February, and Paneerselvan resigned as Chief Minister, she was not formally appointed to the office at the time of her conviction for criminal offences that effectively thwarted her ambitions.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/national/tn-governor-accepts-resignation-of-cm-o-panneerselvam-and-his-council-of-ministers/article9523821.ece |title=Governor accepts CMs resignation |work=Business Line |publisher=The Hindu |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ushinor |last=Majumdar |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/what-the-sc-said-about-jayalalithaa-she-was-the-source-of-funds-for-shell-compan/297959 |title=What The SC Said About Jayalalithaa: She Was The Source Of Funds For Shell Companies |work=Outlook India |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref>

In April 2017 he was one of three AIADMK ministers against whom police filed a [[First Information Report]] after allegations of obstructing officials who were conducting raids related to income tax. He was alleged to have done so at the house of [[Sarathkumar]], the president of [[All India Samathuva Makkal Katchi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/chennai-firs-aiadmk-ministers-obstructing-it-raids/1/929457.html |title=FIRs against 3 AIADMK ministers for obstructing I-T raids |first=Pramod |last=Madhav |date=14 April 2017 |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref>
He recently attended a conference conducted by the Kamma Naidu caste organization in which he was born. <ref>{{cite web| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/gM5X4-yOHiA| archive-date = 2021-12-05| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5X4-yOHiA| title = சாதிச் சங்க மாநாட்டில் அமைச்சர் பங்கேற்பு : அமைச்சர் மீது அதிமுக எம்.எல்.ஏ குற்றச்சாட்டு | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Raju was born on 20 August 1959 into Telugu Kamma Naidu family in Kovilpatti which has a sizeable number of Kamma Naidus like Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Madurai, Ramanathapuram and Karur. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://kammasworld.blogspot.com/2017/12/kadambur-raju-ministers-present-1.html|title=List of Kamma Ministers in Tamilnadu Assembly (Past and Present)}}, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5X4-yOHiA</ref> He has a D.T.Ed. degree and took early retirement from his job as a teacher. He is married and he has two children.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thiru. Kadambur Raju (AIADMK) |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/profile/218.html |access-date=2017-05-04}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{Members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (2011-2016)|state=collapsed}}

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[[Category:1959 births]]
[[Category:Members of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Members of the 15th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:Members of the 16th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
[[Category:All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians]]
[[Category:State cabinet ministers of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Virudhunagar district]]

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