C. P. Radhakrishnan

C. P. Radhakrishnan (born 4 May 1957) is an Indian politician who is the 10th and current Governor of Jharkhand since 2023. He was the member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Coimbatore. He was also the former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Tamil Nadu.[2] Till recently he was 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).

C P Radhakrishnan
10th Governor of Jharkhand[1]
Assumed office
18 February 2023
Chief MinisterHemant Soren
Preceded byRamesh Bais
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
1998–2004
Preceded byM. Ramanathan
Succeeded byK. Subbarayan
ConstituencyCoimbatore
Personal details
Born (1957-05-04) 4 May 1957
Tiruppur, Madras State, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party
SpouseSmt. R. Sumathi
Residences
Alma materV.O. Chidambaram College
OccupationAgriculturist and politician

Political career

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

References
  1. "Railways may use coir wood to make train seats and berths | Coimbatore News - Times of India". The 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.
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