constituency succeeded birth_place party office preceded primeminister birth_date spouse residence term_start article_title term_end name occupation alma_mater
coimbatore k. subbarayan tiruppur bharatiya janata party member of parliament -lrb- lok sabha -rrb- m. ramanathan atal bihari vajpayee atal bihari vajpayee 4 may 1957 smt . r. sumathi tiruppur 1998 1999 c. p. radhakrishnan
 1999 2004 c. p. radhakrishnan agriculturist v.o.c college , tuticorin
c. p. radhakrishnan

c. p. radhakrishnan is an indian politician .
he is from the bharatiya janata party and was elected to the lok sabha from coimbatore .
he is also the former state president of the party for tamil nadu .
he was a two-time member of the lok sabha .
he won on a bjp ticket in the 1998 and 1999 general elections in the aftermath of the 1998 coimbatore bombings .
he won by a margin of over 150,000 votes in 1998 which was reduced to a margin of 55,000 in the 1999 elections .
in 1999 , he stated that voters in coimbatore did not need convincing to vote for the bjp .
in 2004 , he stated that the bjp did not ` stab any party in the back ' or cause any rift in ties with other parties .
he was one of the state leaders who worked on forming alliances in 2004 , after the dravida munnetra kazhagam snapped ties with the bjp-led national democratic alliance .
he later worked with the state unit to forge ties with the all india anna dravida munnetra kazhagam for the 2004 elections .
in 2012 , he courted arrest in mettupalayam for protesting against action not being taken against culprits who assaulted a rashtriya swayamsevak sangh activist .
he was chosen by the bjp to represent the coimbatore constituency in 2014 , amid opposition from certain sections of the party .
