[1] Before being elected to the State Assembly, he was a professor and a scholar at government colleges.
He graduated with an honours degree in Tamil from Pachaiyappa's College, Madras (now Chennai).
His close friend and classmate was Murasoli Maran former Member of Parliament and Minister of Industry and Commerce, Government of India.
Ramachandran's contemporaries at the college were Nanjil K Manoharan and Dr Chokalingam.
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