List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

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Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu
O. Paneerselvam1.jpg
Incumbent
O. Panneerselvam
since 21 August 2017
Appointer Governor of Tamil Nadu
Inaugural holder M. K. Stalin
Formation29 May 2009

Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is an optional post and is second in command to the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The first person to hold the office of Deputy Chief Minister was M. K. Stalin, who took office on 29 May 2009 and left on 15 May 2011. The Chief Minister during that time was his father M. Karunanidhi. [1] [2]

M. K. Stalin Indian politician from Tamil Nadu

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu and President of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party. He was the 37th Mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002 and 1st Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from 2009 to 2011.

M. Karunanidhi Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, India

Muthuvel Karunanidhi was an Indian writer and politician who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for almost two decades over five terms between 1969 and 2011. He had the longest tenure as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu with 6,863 days in office. He was also a long-standing leader of the Dravidian movement and ten-time president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam political party. Before entering politics, he worked in the Tamil film industry as a screenwriter. He also made contributions to Tamil literature, having written stories, plays, novels, and a multiple-volume memoir. He was popularly referred to as "Kalaignar" and "Mutthamizharignar" for his contributions to Tamil literature and the people of Tamil Nadu.

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M. Karunanidhi, the then-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, underwent a spinal cord surgery in 2009, which made him wheel-chair bounded. He was unable to concentrate on many of the departments from his portfolio due to his weakened health, so he decided to allocate some departments to his son, M. K. Stalin, who also held the post of Local Administration Minister in his cabinet, thus resulting in the creation of the post of Deputy Chief Minister Tamil Nadu. Karunanidhi still held the responsibility of Home Department himself.

Tamil Nadu State in Southern India

Tamil Nadu, formerly Madras State, is one of the 29 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian subcontinent and is bordered by the union territory of Puducherry and the South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. It is bounded by the Eastern Ghats on the north, by the Nilgiri Mountains, the Meghamalai Hills, and Kerala on the west, by the Bay of Bengal in the east, by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait on the southeast, and by the Indian Ocean on the south. The state shares a maritime border with the nation of Sri Lanka.

On 21 August 2017, the rebel faction under former chief minister O. Panneerselvam and the ruling faction of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam decided to merge into one. As a result Panneerselvam was sworn in as the 2nd Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.

O. Panneerselvam Indian politician

Ottakarathevar Panneerselvam is an Indian politician, who has been Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and Coordinator of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) since 21 August 2017. He served as the 7th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 2001-02, 2014–15, and from 6 December 2016 to 16 February 2017. He is a Senior Leader of the AIADMK political party and was a staunch loyalist of AIADMK Supremo J. Jayalalithaa. His first two terms as Chief Minister came when he replaced Jayalalithaa in the role, after she was forced to resign by the courts. His third term began following Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's death and ended two months later, Edappadi K. Palaniswami was appointed as the Chief Minister by Tamil Nadu Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao. He was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on 21 August 2017. He also holds portfolios of Finance, Housing, Rural Housing, Housing Development, Slum Clearance Board and Accommodation Control, Town Planning, Urban Development, and Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority. On 4 January 2018, O. Panneerselvam elected as Leader of the House in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Indian political party

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) is an Indian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu and in the union territory of Puducherry. It is currently in power in the state of Tamil Nadu. AIADMK is a Dravidian party founded by M. G. Ramachandran (MGR) on 17 October 1972 as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). From 1989 to 2016, AIADMK was led by Jayalalithaa, who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on several occasions. The party has won majorities in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly seven times, making it the most successful political outfit in the state's history. The party headquarters is located in the Royapettah neighbourhood of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in a building donated to the party in 1986 by Janaki Ramachandran, MGR's wife.

List of Deputy Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

No.Officeholder
(Portfolio)		PortraitTerm of officePolitical party
(Alliance)		Chief Minister
1 M. K. Stalin Mkspicture (cropped).jpg 29 May 200915 May 20111 year, 351 days Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam M. Karunanidhi
2 O. Panneerselvam O. Paneerselvam1.jpg 21 August 2017Incumbent1 year, 332 days All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Edappadi K. Palaniswami

Living Former Deputy Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu

NameBirth
(age)		TenureConstituency
M. K. Stalin 01 March 1953
(66 years, 140 days)		29 May 2009-15 May 2011 (717 days) Kolathur

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References

  1. ↑ Karunanidhi makes Stalin Deputy Chief Minister
  2. ↑ Stalin appointed Tamil Nadu Deputy CM


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