K. Balabharathi

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BalaBharathi
Selvi. K. Balabharathi, CPI(M) Politician.jpg
Member of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly
In office
15 may 2001 – 14 may 2016
ConstituencyDindigul (State Assembly Constituency)
Personal details
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

K. Balabharathi is an Indian politician and was a member of the Fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu from the Dindigul constituency. She represented the Communist Party of India (Marxist) party,[1] for whom she had also been elected to the previous Assembly from the same constituency in the 2006 elections.[2]

After she announced retirement from elections, the elections of 2016 resulted in her constituency being won by ADMK candidate Dindigul C.Sreenivasan against DMK candidate Basheer Ahmed.[3]

Controversies[edit]

She had refused to pay toll charges of Rs.45 in toll gate near Erode. Traffic piled up because of her argument with toll officials and withheld traffic for almost 1 hour. She later accused the toll officials of threatening her with gun, which was later found that toll officials passed by her carrying collection money with armed personals to nearby bank.[4]

References[edit]

  1. "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011" (PDF). Government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  2. 2006 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
  3. "15th Assembly Members". Government of Tamil Nadu. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
  4. https://tamil.samayam.com/latest-news/state-news/ex-mla-balabharathi-says-she-has-been-threatened-by-toll-gate-staffs-showing-gun/articleshow/73382696.cms [dead link]