K. Ravi Arunan is an Indian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress (INC) candidate from Ambasamudram constituency in the 1989 election [1] and from Tenkasi constituency as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (TMC) candidate in the 1996 election. [2]
Arunan left the TMC and became a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in early 2001. [3] He had lost the chance to defend the Tenkasi seat as a TMC candidate in the 2001 elections because of an election pact between the TMC and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). [4] In the 2006 elections, he stood as a BJP candidate in Tenkasi and came a very distant third place, with 5190 votes. [5] [6]
Arunan was a member of the Oil Selection Board at the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, created in 1993, which consisted of a chairman (Justice M. Maruthamuthu) and two members (K. Ravi Arunan and P. Subbarayan). The board had jurisdiction over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.[ citation needed ]
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Tamil Maanila Congress (M) (TMC) is a political party in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The party was founded on 29 March 1996. The party was formed by G. K. Moopanar along with a major fraction of leaders from Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
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