K. Subbarayan (born 10 August 1947) is a member of the

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of India. He represents the

Tiruppur Lok Sabha constituency Tiruppur is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 18 of 39. Originally, Gobichettipalayam (Lok Sabha constituency), Gobichettipalayam, it was converted to Tiruppur by Election commission afte ...

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and is a member of the

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(CPI). He represented the neighboring

Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency Coimbatore is a Lok Sabha constituency in western Tamil Nadu, India. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 20 of 39. It is the Second largest city of Tamil Nadu and the district headquarters of the Coimbatore district. This Coimb ...

of in the

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. He was also elected twice for the

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from the

Tiruppur assembly constituency Tiruppur is the legislative Assembly constituency, that includes the city of Tiruppur. Tiruppur Assembly constituency was part of Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency. It was a two-member constituency in the 1952 election. History After 2008 O ...

. The CPI in Tamil Nadu allied with the

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as part of the

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for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. The party was allocated two seats to contest under the terms of agreement, from which Subbarayan was selected to fight Coimbatore. The seat, whose economy was largely based on a textile industry that was contracting due to recession, had been won in

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and

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by C. P. Radhakrishnan of the

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. Aside from issues relating to unemployment, a major local issue in the 2004 campaign was the situation regarding drought and water supplies. Radhakrishnan's past success had come from exploiting communal tensions caused by a bombing campaign in the area by the now-banned Islamic fundamentalist Al Ummah group but this was no longer a significant issue. Subbarayan had previously been elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from the Tiruppur constituency for the periods 1984-89 and 1996-2001. Tiruppur is Subbarayan's home town. He was runner-up to C. Govindasamy of the

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in the

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. Subbarayan decided not to contest the 2016 state assembly elections.

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