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Govindasamy Viswanathan (born on 8 December 1938) is an Indian politician and the founder and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology in India. [1] [2]
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Govindasamy Viswanathan (born on 8 December 1938) is an Indian politician and the founder and chancellor of Vellore Institute of Technology in India. [1] [2]
He served as a Member of Parliament from Vandavasi Lok Sabha constituency and He was elected twice to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Anaicut constituency in the 1980 election [3] and from Arcot constituency in 1991 election. [4]
Viswanathan was born in a family near Gudiyattam. He attended the six-week Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 2003. He obtained a Master's Degree in Economics from Loyola College and completed Law from Madras University. His leadership skills were noticed by C. N. Annadurai and the DMK party chose him to contest the elections in 1967. He entered the Indian parliament representing the aspirations of around 500,000 people of his constituency. [5]
Currently,Dr. G Viswanathan holds these offices:
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