MLA · 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly (2026–31)Former MLA · 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly (2026–31)

ECR P. Saravanan
  • Won 2026 by 96,780

ECR P. Saravanan

இசிஆர் பி. சரவணன்

MLA for Shozhinganallur since May 2026MLA for Shozhinganallur, 2026–31TVK

  • AC 27 · Chengalpattu district
  • Sitting MLA · 17th Assembly (2026–31)
  • Age 45 at the 2026 election
declared assets
₹50.26 lakh
pending criminal cases
3
education
5th pass
times elected MLA
1

Assets, cases and education as declared in the 2026 sworn affidavit to the Election Commission of India. The cases are pending, not convictions. Age: from the Election Commission's candidate profile.

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Career

ECR P. Saravanan: the career, year by year

First elected to the Assembly in 2026

  • Assembly win
  • Office held
  1. 1991–1992

    Studied up to Class 5 at Government Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai. Dropped out in 1992.

  2. Pre-politics

    Built a business and organising career across the East Coast Road / Old Mahabalipuram Road (ECR/OMR) IT-and-coastal belt that became Sholinganallur constituency. Ground-up street-level network across Thiruvanmiyur, Karapakkam, Sholinganallur and the OMR fishing villages.

  3. 2024–2025

    Selected by TVK for the Sholinganallur candidacy — the state's largest assembly constituency in voter terms (5,53,905 electors), and a high-stakes seat against DMK's sitting MLA Aravind Ramesh.

  4. 4 May 2026

    Won Shozhinganallur for the TVK (polling was on 23 April).

    See the full 2026 result
  5. 11 May 2026

    Sworn in as MLA in the first session of the 17th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly — settles in as TVK's key voice for IT-corridor / OMR-belt residents and the coastal fishing communities.

Profile

About ECR P. Saravanan

That's the largest margin recorded by any TVK candidate in the state, on TN's biggest constituency by voter count. A grassroots organiser with a Class-5 education and deep ECR/OMR networks, he is the son of Palani and one of the headline 2026 stories for TVK's blue-collar candidate template.

Party
Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam
Born
Sholinganallur–ECR belt, Chengalpattu district; son of Palani
Profession
Politician (TVK); ECR/OMR-belt organiser and businessman before politics
District
Chengalpattu

Education

  • 1991–19925th pass, Government Higher Secondary School, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai (per ECI affidavit; dropped out in 1992)

Party & ideology

Saravanan's profile is a deliberate counterweight to the elite-leaning faces of the TVK frontbench — a 5th-pass ground-level organiser whose ear-to-the-street campaign in Sholinganallur produced the year's biggest TVK landslide. The constituency cuts across the OMR IT belt (large young-urban-professional vote) and traditional Tamil-fishing villages and chettinad-residential pockets; his win shows TVK's appeal landed across both demographics. Inside the 17th Assembly he is part of the constituency-anchored organiser cluster — the equivalent of an old-style ward-boss MLA, with Sholinganallur's exceptional voter scale giving him outsized symbolic weight.

Family

Son of Palani (per ECI affidavit). Spouse and family detail on the myneta candidate page.

Official channels

Saravanan on XSaravanan on InstagramSaravanan on Facebook

Questions people ask

Who is ECR P. Saravanan?

First-time MLA from Sholinganallur (AC 27) in Chengalpattu district. Son of Palani; studied up to Class 5 at Thiruvanmiyur. Won on TVK ticket in 2026 with 2,20,382 votes (TN's highest vote tally for any candidate this election) and a 96,780-vote margin — TVK's largest 2026 margin.

What's special about Sholinganallur?

It's the largest Tamil Nadu Assembly constituency by voter numbers (5,53,905 electors), covering the OMR / Old Mahabalipuram Road IT corridor and surrounding coastal Chengalpattu. The constituency's demographics — a mix of young urban IT professionals, residential apartment communities and traditional fishing villages — make it a bellwether for Chennai's expanding southern ring.

Who did Saravanan defeat?

Sitting DMK MLA S. Aravind Ramesh, who finished second. AIADMK's K. P. Kandan came third — pushed out of the contest by the TVK-DMK head-to-head.

What does his affidavit show?

Declared assets of about ₹50 lakh per the 2026 ECI affidavit. Three pending criminal cases declared. See myneta for the full disclosure.

Why call him 'ECR' Saravanan?

The prefix is a constituency-marker — ECR for the East Coast Road / Old Mahabalipuram Road belt where he organised the campaign and built his TVK base. He uses 'ECR P. Saravanan' on the ballot and party listings to distinguish from other Saravanans in Tamil Nadu politics.

Other MLAs from Chengalpattu district

J. KamatchiPallavaram · TVKD. SarathkumarTambaram · TVKS. ThiyagarajanChengalpattu · TVKB. VijayarajThiruporur · TVKE. RajasekarCheyyur · AIADMKK. Maragatham KumaravelMadurantakam · AIADMK · former

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