First Minister of Scotland elect its members, it is difficult for a single party to gain an overall majority of seats in the Scottish Parliament. The SNP gained an overall majority of seats in the 2011 election, and thus had enough numbers to vote in its leader, Alex Salmond, as First Minister for a second term. After the election of the Scottish Parliament, a First Minister must be nominated within a period of 28 days. Under the terms of the Scotland Act, if the Parliament fails to nominate a First Minister, within this time frame, it will be dissolved and a fresh election held.
S. Damodaran Assembly from the same constituency in 2001 and 2006. Damodaran had been a minister in the Jayalalithaa-led government of 2001-2006 and she appointed him to cabinet office again in November 2011 during a reshuffle. He took over the Agriculture portfolio from K. A. Sengottaiyan, who became Minister for Information Technology. Damodaran was replaced as Minister for Agriculture by S. S. Krishnamoorthy on 19 May 2014, when the Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, again reshuffled her government. The elections of 2016 resulted in his constituency being won by A. Shanmugam. S. Damodaran S. Damodaran (born 18 September 1952) is an Indian politician and