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Kalai Kathiravan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ139695179 ↗
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Kalai Kathiravan is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu. He is a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Tenkasi representing the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Political career

Kathiravan won the Tenkasi seat in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election as a candidate of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He received 79,699 votes and defeated S. Selva Mohandas Pandian of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by a margin of 10,299 votes.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kalai Kathiravan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.