Gomathi Srinivasan was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) candidate from Valangiman constituency in 1980.[1] She served as Minister of Social Welfare in the cabinet of M. G. Ramachandran between 1980 and 1987,[2] being re-elected from the same constituency, in the 1984 election.[3] After Ramachandran had died, Gomathi Srinivasan switched allegiances and joined the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),[2] for whom she won the Valangiman seat in the 1996 elections.[4] The DMK denied her the opportunity to contest the 2001 elections and later suspended her for alleged anti-party activities.[5] She returned to the AIADMK in September 2013.[2] Gomathi Srinivasan was among several former DMK ministers legislators charged by Tamil Nadu Police in June 2005 of having assets disproportionate to their known income.[6] All charges were dismissed by the courts in 2015 due to lack of evidence.[7]
In 2024, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the presence of Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai and Rajeev Chandrasekhar.[3][8][9]
