Edappadi K. Palaniswami - Wikipedia Edappadi K. Palaniswami Edappadi K. Palaniswami Palaniswami in January 2018 8th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Incumbent Assumed office 14 February 2017 Governor Banwarilal Purohit Deputy CM O. Paneerselvam Preceded by O. Paneerselvam Constituency Edappadi Minister of Highways and Minor Ports & PWD Incumbent Assumed office 23 May 2016 Constituency Edapadi Minister of Highways and Minor Ports In office 16 May 2011 -- 16 May 2016 Preceded by M.P. Saminathan Constituency Edapadi Member of Lok Sabha In office 19 March 1998 -- 12 October 1999 Preceded by K.P. Ramalingam Succeeded by M. Kannappan Constituency Tiruchengode Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly In office 27 January 1989 -- 30 January 1991 Preceded by Govindaswamy In office 24 June 1991 -- 12 May 1996 Succeeded by I. Ganesan Constituency Edapadi Personal details ( 1954 - 05 - 12 ) 12 May 1954 ( age 64 ) Edappadi, Madras State, India Political party ADMK Spouse ( s ) Radha Children Mithun Kumar ( Son ) Residence Greenways Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Occupation Edappadi K. Palaniswami ( born 12 May 1954 ) is an Indian politician and the Current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, having assumed the office on 16 February 2017. Contents 1 Personal life 2 Legislative career 3 See also 4 References Personal life Edappadi K. Palanisamy was born on 12 May 1954 in a village called Siluvam Palayam near Salem district. His father 's name is Mr. Karuppa Gounder and Mother name is Thavasi Ammal. His father was a marginal farmer. Palaniswami is married and living with his family in Chennai. His wife name is P. Radha whose profession has also been declared as an agriculturalist in the election nomination paper. He has a son whose name is Mithun. He is an General manager in Sriram IT park. Legislative career Palanniswami has won the assembly election to the state assembly four times, in 1989, 1991, 2011 and 2016 from the Edapadi constituency. Lost the elections parliamentary in 2004, 2009. See also Edappadi Palaniswami ministry ( 2017 - ) References Jump up ^ Thangavelu, Dharani ( 15 February 2017 ). `` Who is Edappadi K. Palaniswami ? ''. Archived from the original on 13 March 2017. Jump up ^ `` Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha '' ( PDF ). Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 18 July 2014. Jump up ^ `` 2016 TN Assembly Election -- Candidate Affidavit '' ( PDF ). myneta.info. Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 1 March 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2017. Jump up ^ Profile, archived from the original on 17 February 2017 Jump up ^ `` 1989 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India '' ( PDF ). Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 6 October 2010. Jump up ^ `` 1991 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India '' ( PDF ). Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 13 December 2016. Jump up ^ `` List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu '' ( PDF ). Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2 April 2013. Jump up ^ `` Council of Ministers, Govt. of Tamil Nadu ''. Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Jump up ^ Saqaf, Syed Muthahar ( 14 February 2017 ). `` From farmer to CM pick -- the rise of a Jaya loyalist ''. Archived from the original on 15 February 2017 -- via www.thehindu.com. Government of Tamil Nadu Executive Governor : Banwarilal Purohit Council of Ministers Edappadi K. Palanisamy O. Panneerselvam Dindigul C. Sreenivasan K.A. Sengottaiyan Sellur K. Raju P. Thangamani S.P. Velumani D. Jayakumar C. Ve. Shanmugam K.P. Anbalagan Dr. V. Saroja M.C. Sampath K.C. Karuppannan R. Kamaraj O.S. Manian Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan Dr. C. Vijaya Baskar R. Doraikkannu Kadambur C. Raju R.B. Udhaya Kumar Vellamandi N. Natarajan K.C. Veeramani K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji P. Benjamin M.R. Vijayabhaskar Dr. Nilofer kafeel Dr. M. Manikandan V.M. Rajalakshmi K. Pandiarajan G. Baskaran Sevvoor S. Ramachandran S. Valarmathi P. Balakrishna Reddy Legislature Speaker : P. Dhanapal Deputy Speaker : V. Jayaraman Judiciary Chief Justice of the Madras High Court : Indira Banerjee Lists of chief ministers of Indian states ( and current incumbents ) Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Bihar Nitish Kumar Chhattisgarh Raman Singh Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Goa Manohar Parrikar Gujarat Vijay Rupani Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar Himachal Pradesh Jai Ram Thakur Jammu and Kashmir Vacant Jharkhand Raghubar Das Karnataka H.D. Kumaraswamy Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis Manipur N. Biren Singh Meghalaya Conrad Sangma Mizoram Lal Thanhawla Nagaland Neiphiu Rio Odisha Naveen Patnaik Puducherry V. Narayanasamy Punjab Amarinder Singh Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling Tamil Nadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami Telangana K. Chandrashekhar Rao Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat West Bengal Mamata Banerjee Women chief ministers From the Bharatiya Janata Party From the Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu Madras Presidency A. Subbarayalu Reddiar Panagal Raja P. Subbarayan P. Munuswamy Naidu Ramakrishna Ranga Rao P.T. Rajan Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu C. Rajagopalachari Tanguturi Prakasam O.P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar P.S. Kumaraswamy Raja Madras State P.S. Kumaraswamy Raja C. Rajagopalachari K. Kamaraj M. Bakthavatsalam C.N. Annadurai Tamil Nadu C.N. Annadurai V.R. Nedunchezhiyan M. Karunanidhi M.G. Ramachandran V.N. Janaki J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam Edappadi K. Palanisamy Council of Ministers of Tamil Nadu Fifteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2016 ( Present ) J. Jayalalithaa Edappadi K. Palanisamy O. Panneerselvam Dindigul C. Sreenivasan K.A. Sengottaiyan Sellur K. Raju P. Thangamani S.P. Velumani D. Jayakumar C. Ve. Shanmugam K.P. Anbalagan Dr. V. Saroja M.C. Sampath K.C. Karuppannan R. Kamaraj O.S. Manian Udumalai K. Radhakrishnan Dr. C. Vijaya Baskar R. Doraikkannu Kadambur Raju R.B. Udhaya Kumar Vellamandi N. Natarajan K.C. Veeramani K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji P. Benjamin M.R. Vijayabhaskar Dr. Nilofer kafeel Dr. M. Manikandan V.M. Rajalakshmi K. Pandiarajan G. Baskaran Sevvoor S. Ramachandran S. Valarmathi P. Balakrishna Reddy Fourteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2011 ( Past ) J. Jayalalithaa O. Panneerselvam R. Viswanathan K.P. Munusamy R. Vaithilingam P. Mohan ( politician ) N.R. Sivapathi P. Palaniappan Sellur K. Raju K.T. Pachaimal K. Palanisamy K.V. Ramalingam Mukkur N. Subramanian T.K.M. Chinnayya M.C. Sampath P. Thangamani P. Chendur Pandian S. Gokula Indira B.V. Ramanaa N. Subramanian V. Senthil Balaji K.A. Jayapal S.T. Chellapandian V.S. Vijay A. Mohammedjan S. Damodaran R. Kamaraj S. Sundararaj V. Moorthy K.T. Rajenthra Bhalaji B. Valarmathi M.S.M. Anandan N.D. Venkatachalam N Mariam Pitchai E. Subaya C. Karuppasamy C. Shanmugavelu R.B. Udhaya Kumar S.P. Shanmuganathan N.R. Sivapathi G. Senthamizhan Budhichandhiran M. Paranjothi Selvi Ramajayam Agri S.S. Krishnamoorthy S.P. Velumani K.A. Sengottaiyan C.V. Shanmugam Thirteenth Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 2006 M. Karunanidhi M.K. Stalin K. Anbazhagan Arcot N. Veeraswami Ko. Si. Mani Veerapandi S. Arumugam M. Karunanidhi K. Ponmudy K.N. Nehru M.R.K. Paneerselvam I. Periasami N. Suresh Rajan Parithi Ilamvazhuthi E.V. Velu Suba Thangavelan K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran T.M. Anbarasan K.R. Periyakaruppan Thangam Thennarasu S.N. M Ubayadullah T.P.M. Mohideen Khan N. Selvaraj Vellakoil Saminathan Poongothai Aladi Aruna Geetha Jeevan Members of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly ( 2011 -- 2016 ) AIADMK+ alliance AIADMK Pon. Raja B.V. Ramanaa R. Manimaran S. Abdul Rahim S. Vedachalam V. Moorthy K. Kuppan P. Vetriivel ( to 2015 ) J.C.D. Prabhakar V. Neelakandan D. Jayakumar Pala. Karuppiah B. Valarmathi S. Gokula Indira G. Senthamizhan V.P. Kalairajan R. Rajalakshmi M.K. Ashok K.P. Kandan R. Perumal P. Dhansingh T.K.M. Chinnayya K. Manoharan R. Manoharan V.S. Raji S. Kanitha Sampath P. Ganesan V. Somasundaram S. Ravi A. Mohammed John R. Srinivasan V.S. Vijay Govi. Sampath Kumar K.C. Veeramani K.G. Ramesh V.N.P. Venkatraman ( from 2014 ) Manoranjitham Nagaraj S.S. Krishnamoorthy K. Alaguvelu M.S.M. Anandan K.P. Anbalagan A.K. Aranganathan V.C. Arukutty K.P.P. Baskar A.K. Bose Budhichandhiran R. Chandrasekar S.T. Chellapandian P. Chendur Pandian ( to 2015 ) O.K. Chinnaraj R. Chinnaswamy C.T. Palanichamy S. Damodaran P. Dhanapal R. Doraikkannu R. Doraisamy S. Duraiappa Edappadi K. Palaniswami K. Gopalsamy V. Gunaseelan M. Gunasekaran D. Haridoss T. Indragandhi I. Janagiraman Jayalalithaa K.A. Jayapal L. 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