Kammas World

A three-time Rajya Sabha member at the time he was with the DMK, Mr Vaiko was elected twice from Sivakasi. His last tenure was from 1999 to 2004. MDMK Chief Pulipati Gopalasamy or Vaiko , one of the  is all set to return to parliament after 15 years. His party today nominated him as its candidate for upcoming elections to the Rajya Sabha. Though the MDMK has no legislators to elect a Rajya Sabha member, it was offered one seat by the DMK as part of their alliance deal for the Lok Sabha polls in which the DMK swept the polls, winning 37 of the 38 seats in Tamil Nadu. A three-time Rajya Sabha member at the time he was with the DMK, Mr Vaiko was elected twice from Sivakasi. His last tenure was from 1999 to 2004. Mr Vaiko, an advocate and a powerful speaker in English and Tamil, was arrested by the J Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK government in 2002 under the anti-terror Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) for a controversial speech in support of the banned LTTE. He spen...

Kalanidhi Veerasamy - DMK, son of former minister 'Arcot' N Veerasamy defeated his nearest rival candidate MohanRaj of DMDK by margin over 4,61,000 votes in Chennai North parliament segment. In 2014 T G Venkatesh Babu (Kamma), AIADMK elected from here denied ticket this time.

At the end of the final phase of the vote, DMK candidate A S Vilvanathan is secured 95,504 votes over his nearest AIADMK candidate who secured only 58,416 votes.

R.S.Raajesh 1) Perambur - R.S.Raajesh - AIADMK 2) Ambur - R.Balasubramani - AMMK                    - A.S.Vilvanathan - DMK

The list of Kammas contesting in Tamilnadu Parliament elections 1) Arcot Kalanidhi Veeraswamy - Chennai North - DMK 2) Lingutla Kannaiah Sudheesh - Kallakurichi - DMDK 

Thothala Narayanaswamy Manoharan (S/o T.L. Narayanaswamy Chowdhry ) was born in April 1956 in a freedom fighter's family near Vellore, Tamilnadu with agricultural background . He obtained a post graduate degree in Commerce from Sri Venkateshwara University and a law degree from Madras Law College. He became a Chartered Accountant in 1983 and set up his public practice in the same year. He is the founding partner of the accounting firm Manohar Chowdhry & Associates, Chennai. He was elected to the central council of ICAI in 2001 and its Vice President in 2005. He remained as a Central Council Member till 2007. He has also chaired various committees of the Institute. In 2006, he was elected as the President of the ICAI. He is also a notable freemason. He was the ARGM of Chennai Area during 2016-17. In 2009, Manoharan was one of the six members (as representatives of Government of India) appointed to the board of the scandal hit information technology company Satyam Comput...

K. Damodharasamy Naidu (1926 - 21 November 2006) was freedom fighter and founder and chairman of the Sree Annapoorna Sree Gowrishankar Group born in Peedampalli village near Coimbatore. The Annapoorna chain was started in the early 1960s by K. Dhamodarasamy Naidu as a catering unit in Kennedy movie theater in R. S. Puram, Coimbatore. Later a coffee house was set up and run by Naidu and his three brothers K. Rangaswamy Naidu, K. Ramaswamy Naidu and K. Lakshmanan. It offered coffee, tea and tiffin items. In 1968, they opened a vegetarian restaurant under the name "Sree Annapoorna". The business grew as more restaurants were opened in many locations in Coimbatore. In 1980, a lodging hotel was opened. Currently the Annapoorna group has more than 16 restaurants in Coimbatore and in other cities of Tamil Nadu. It also operates other businesses like kitchen equipment manufacturing, construction, instant food mix production and bottling beverages. He entered the food b...

Ramakrishnan Prabhu (born 31 May 1947) was an Indian National Congress member of Parliament in India, representing the Nilgiris (Ooty) constituency of Tamil Nadu, India. He was elected from Nilgiris 5 times (1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 2004) and served as Union Minister of State, Department of Chemicals and Fertilisers, Ministry of Agriculture, 1987 – 89 in the Rajiv Gandhi cabinet. R. Prabhu was born on 31 May 1947 to eminent Coimbatore based educationalist and industrialist P. R. Ramakrishnan and R. Rajeshwari. His father P. R. Ramakrishnan was the first Indian Alumni of MIT Sloan School of Management and a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States who founded Madras Aluminum Company, South India Viscose, Coimbatore Institute of Technology and many other textile industries and two time Member of Parliament representing Indian National Congress from Coimbatore for the 3rd Lok Sabha during the 1962 General Elections and Pollachi for the 2nd Lok Sabha...

Many of the leaders who fought for the lives of farmers. Among them are C Narayanasamy Naidu is very important. Chinnamanna Narayanaswamy Naidu , who was born on 06.02.1925 at Seengalipalayam village near Coimbatore, lost his mother in 40 days of birth. Narayanasamy, who was engaged in agriculture after marriage, realized how big a fight was. In the early 1950s, the amount of electricity delivered to agriculture was reduced from 16 hours to 4 hours due to the risks of electricity generation and support for the industrial industry. The crops fell unchanged. In 1957, Narayanasamy Naidu held a meeting of the farmers in Coimbatore and met with the District Collector and Minister of Minorities, explaining the sorrow of the farmers and recovering 16 days of electricity once again. This was the first victory struggle by Narayanasamy Naidu. Narayanasamy Naidu has completely deviated himself from the success of the father and wife's death, his family's economic problems an...

Govindaswamy Rangaswamy Govindarajulu (1919 - 1986) was born as the fourth child of Krishnammal and the Diwan Bahadur P.S.G.Rangaswamy Naidu in Peelamedu.  His siblings were Lakshmi Ammal, Dr.G.R.Damodaran, Rukmani Ammal, G.R.Venkatesalu and G.R.Varatharajan. He spent his childhood in Peelamedu in the company of the members of his family at a time when they were establishing a number of businesses and institutions. G.R.Govindarajulu (GRG) went to Loyola for his undergraduate programme but destiny brought him back to Coimbatore. His father P.S.G.Rangaswamy Naidu (1882 - 1947) was a visionary all his life. He had founded the P.S.G Institutions along with his brothers P.S.G.Venkataswamy Naidu, P.S.G.Ganga Naidu and P.S.G. Narayanasamy Naidu. The mills and the institutions belonging to the family helped the young apprentice GRG to shape his future under the directions of his elders. Young GRG did amazingly well, and eventually became an important person in the management ...

L.G. Varadarajulu (December 15, 1928 - May 19, 2010) was born to legendary businessman LRG Naidu and Ranganayakiammal on December 15, 1928 in Kalangal. After completing his studies in automobile engineering at the Arthur Hope's College in Coimbatore, he joined his father's bus transport business in Tirupur. He started manufacturing of automobile garage equipment and air compressors in 1960. He served as the Chairman of the ELGI Group of Companies — Elgi Equipments, Elgi Rubber, Elgi Ultra Industries, and LG Balakrishnan & Bros. ELGI is today, the market leader and Asia's largest and world’s seventh-largest manufacturer of air compressors and automobile service station equipment. ELGI's products are used in a wide range of applications in areas ranging from mining, defence, transport, pharmaceuticals, power, oil, railways, chemicals, textiles, printing to ship building, paper, electronics, telecommunications, medical, food & beverages and plastics....

P.B.Krishnamurthy was the son of Balasundaram and Sri Lakshmi who was born in Bhavani sagar. Due to the inundation caused by construction of the Bhavani sagar dam, his family relocated to the city of Coimbatore. P.B.Krishnamurthy was the son of Balasundaram and Sri Lakshmi who was born in Bhavani sagar. Due to the inundation caused by construction of the Bhavani sagar dam, his family relocated to the city of Coimbatore. A young Krishnamurthy pursued his schooling at the City Municipal High School and had to quit due to financial constraints. Hence, Krishnamurthy joined the commercial tax office and worked there for about 3 months. It was at that time, an aspiration to step foot in the world of commerce got seeded in Krishnamurthy who shortly set up a provision store at the buzzing Poo Market area. He was then engaged full-time in managing his shop "Swami & Murthy" along with his cousin brother Karuppuswamy. Though life went on smooth, Krishnamurthy's i...

The dawn of the Vijayanagar Empire in the year 1336 ushered in a lot of migrations all over the south. A large number of Telugu and Kannada speaking people migrated to the Tamil speaking parts of the country. The black cotton soil farmers of Andhra Pradesh moved over to the black cotton soil regions of Tamilnadu along with their seeds. This added to the seed diversity of the region in a big way. The Rasakondalar clan from Andhra had migrated to the Coimbatore and made it their home for ever. The clan has been ensconced in Pappanaickenpalayam for a few centuries. Periya Govindaswamy Naidu of the Rasakondalar clan was born in the year 1858 at Coimbatore. He was known to be a content person who accommodated his siblings well. In fact when the properties of his family were partitioned he took ones the discarded by his brothers. He was a peoples' person and took a keen interest in the affairs of his neighborhood all his life. Periya Govindaswamy Naidu participated in the joys...

Lakshminaickenpalayam Ramaswamy Govindasamy Naidu ( 1894 - 1970 ) was born as the fourth child to Ramaswamy Naidu and Chinnasamy Ammal on the 7 th of January 1894. L.R.Govindasamy Naidu was popularly known as LRG Naidu and he was an entrepreneur with a vision which encompassed several aspects of commerce and social life. He was closely associated with the Industrial Scientist GD Naidu from his early days. LRG Naidu married Ranganayaki Ammal and couple made Tirupur their home from the year 1924. The couple was blessed with four dynamic sons and a daughter Vijayalakshmi who was married to V.N.Ramachandran of Premier Mills.   It was from Tirupur that he grew from good to great and he ensured that his enterprises and policies were built to last. His Vijayalakshmi Motor Service,City Mofussil Transports and Tirupur Karur Transports were headquartered at Tirupur and the other bus company Madura Public Conveyance from his stable had 40 buses and the operations where centered around D...

The brothers who contributed substantially to the industrialisation of Coimbatore are G.K. Devarajulu and G.K. Sundaram . The sons of cotton merchant G.Kuppusamy Naidu, who also had a ginning unit, both evinced immense capability. Devarajulu, born in 1911, was a man with appetite for risks.     He set up the Lakshmi Mills at the age of just 21. As the machinery for the cotton units were imported from Europe under the impression that those from Japan were substandard, Devarajulu visited the factory in Japan to study whether the machinery would suit Indian requirements. Consequently all the machinery for his unit were imported from Japan. He also introduced the administrative system he found good in Japanese units. When Devarajulu and Mr. Sundaram joined Textool as shareholders in 1940, the company produced its first ring frame. Devarajulu joined hands with R.Venkataswamy Naidu of Peelamedu to set up the South India Viscose for which he imported m...

R Prabhu 5 times MP and Ex.Central Minister  1st Loksabha 1952       1)            Pollachi   G Rangaswami Damodaran    Congress 2nd Loksabha 1957 1)             Cuddalore      T.D. Muthukumarasamy Naidu   CRC 2)             Pollachi    P.R. Ramakrishnan,       Congress 3rd Loksabha 1962 1)             Coimbatore    P.R. Ramakrishnan,       Congress 2)             Cuddalore      T.D. Muthukumarasamy Naidu    DMK 3)             Tiruvallur    V. Govindasamy Naidu  ...

R. Venkataswamy Naidu was popularly known as RVS and he reigned supreme in the world of business for much of his life. RVS was born to the smart agriculturist turned entrepreneur V. Rangaswamy Naidu of Peelamedu and the lady with a golden touch Chinnammal on May 12, 1910. Peelamedu was the home to a number of black cotton farmers who had the gumption to take risks and therefore a number of them ventured into industry. Venkataswamy joined the Sarvajana School and subsequently spent some years at the St. Michaels Higher Secondary School before graduating from the University of Madras. RVS went to England and pursued his B.Sc (Tech) Textiles from the University of Manchester. On his return he joined his father at the family run Radhakrishna Mills Limited. He was appointed as the "Manager" and the title stuck to him for life. The great depression of 1929 destroyed many an enterprise in the US and around the world. The impact was felt in Mumbai and a number of busi...