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Who is CP Radhakrishnan? Five Unknown points

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1)Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan was born in Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur on October 20, 1957, and belongs to the influential Gounder caste, an OBC community in the state. He has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. 2)Radhakrishnan has been a member of the RSS, and a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh's State Executive Committee. He served as the president of BJP's Tamil Nadu unit between 2004 and 2007. He was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time from Coimbatore in 1998 and was re-elected in 1999. 3)He was sworn in as the Governor of Maharashtra on July 31, 2024, and has, previous to that, served as the Governor of Jharkhand for nearly one and a half years. During his stint in Jharkhand, in a rarity in his career which has mostly witnessed conciliatory politics, Radhakrishnan locked horns with the state's JMM government over several issues. 4)Radhakrishnan's nomination drew favour from leaders in the BJP not just owing to his affable disposition...