A. S. Ponnammal
Introduction '''A. S. Ponnammal''' was an Indian Politician and a seven time MLA to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly spanning from 1957 to 2001.She was part of Congress Party, Tamil Maanila Congress and Congress Jananayaka Peravai. She was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly for five terms representing Nilakottai Assembly constituency  and one term from each from the Palani Assembly constituency and Sholavandan Assembly constituency respectively. She was commonly referred to as ''Akka'' (elder sister). She died at Madurai at an age of 88 in 2015.
Career Ponnammal represented the Congress Party in the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from 1957 to 1967, having been elected from the Sholavandan constituency in Madurai. She was subsequently elected to Tamil Nadu assembly in 1980 as an Independent candidate. In 1984, she was elected in the Palani constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate. She  won the Nilakottai constituency in 1989 and 1991 as an Indian National Congress candidate and in 1996 as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) Ponnammal was a veteran M.L.A of Tamil Nadu. She served as the Pro-term speaker of Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly post the state elections in 1989, 1991 and 1996.She unsuccessfully contested the  Nilakottai seat in 1967, 1971 and 2001 elections.
Elections contested ===Tamil Nadu Legislative elections===ElectionsConstituencyPartyResultVote percentageOpposition CandidateOpposition PartyOpposition vote percentage1957 Madras Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiINC|19.24M. VadivelIndependent9.72 1962 Madras Legislative Assembly electionSholavandanINC|46.37A. MuniandiDMK33.011967 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiINC|38.55A. MuniyandiDMK57.711971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiINC|38.88A. MuniyandiDMK61.121980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiIndependent|61.60A. ManivasagamDMK38.401984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionPalaniINC|66.27N. PalanivelCPI(M)38.401989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiINC|30.10R. ParanthamanDMK29.391991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiINC|65.75M. ArivazhaganDMK26.521996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiTMC(M)|54.48A. RasuINC25.202001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly electionNilakottaiIndependent|7.09G. AnbazhaganAIADMK57.36
Awards She was the Kamarajar award of the Government of Tamil Nadu in 2006 to recognise and honour her public service.
Death She died in 2015 at Government Rajaji Hospital, Madurai.
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