M. Thambidurai

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M. Thambidurai
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 March 2020
Preceded by	Edappadi K. Palaniswami
Personal details
Born	(1947-03-15) 15 March 1947 (age 78) Sinthagampalli, Madras Province, British India
Political party	All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (1972-present)
Other political affiliations	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (1965-1972)
Spouse	Banumathi Thambidurai ​ ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	2
Residence	5, Tughlak Lane, New Delhi
Alma mater	Madras Christian College

Munisamy Thambidurai (born 15 March 1947) is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu who served as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha ^[1] and leader of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. ^[2] He had served as the Cabinet Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs and as the Minister of State of Surface Transport from March 1998 to April 1999. He had also served as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha from 1985 to 1989. ^[3]

Political career

Thambidurai started his political career as a youth worker and student activist of the erstwhile united DMK in 1965 at the age of 18, when he was in the first year as a student of Madras Christian College. He participated in the anti-Hindi agitation of 1965 and courted arrest. He worked his way up in the Party as a hard working organizer, starting as a worker at the booth level for Municipal and Legislative Assembly polls in 1967 and 1971 for the DMK, and also as an Agitprop coordinator in universities and colleges. He was among the founding-members and first generation of the AIADMK in 1972 when the party split with M.G. Ramachandran. He became an MLA from Erode in 1977, and was first elected as a Member of Parliament to the 8th Lok Sabha in 1984 from Karur (Lok Sabha constituency), Dharmapuri and was subsequently elected to the 9th, 12th, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha. He was also elected to the Tamil Nadu assembly in the 2001 2006 elections from Bargur (state assembly constituency). He also served as minister of Education, Technical Education, Science and Technology, Sports and Youth Welfare, Archeology, Tamil Development and Tamil Culture, Indian Overseas, Refugees and Evacuees. He was portfolio during jayalaithaa 2001 cabinet.

Thambidurai contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Karur (Lok Sabha constituency) in Tamil Nadu and was subsequently elected as a member of the Indian Parliament. He had been serving as the leader of AIADMK in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He lost in the general elections in 2019 to Jothimani.

Elections Contested

Lok Sabha

Year	Constituency	Party		Votes	%	Opponent	Opponent Party		Opponent Votes	%	Result	Margin	%
1984	Dharmapuri		AIADMK	3,33,427	63.33	Parvathi Krishnan		CPI	1,82,175	34.6	Won	1,51,252	28.73
1989	Karur			4,84,492	65.6	K. C. Palanisamy		DMK	2,45,741	33.27	Won	2,38,751	32.33
1996				2,41,556	33.08	K. Natrayan		TMC(M)	4,09,830	56.12	Lost	-1,68,274	-23.04
1998				3,27,480	50.39				2,83,807	43.67	Won	43,673	6.72
2009				3,80,542	46.21	K. C. Palanisamy		DMK	3,33,288	40.48	Won	47,254	5.73
2014				5,40,722	52.36	M. Chinnasamy			3,45,475	33.45	Won	1,95,247	18.91
2019				2,75,151	25.06	S. Jothimani		INC	6,95,697	63.36	Lost	-4,20,546	-38.3

Rajya Sabha

Position	Party		Constituency	From	To	Tenure
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha (1st Term)		AIADMK	Tamil Nadu	3 April 2020	2 April 2026	5 years, 364 days

Personal life

Dr.M.Thambidurai born in Sinthagampalli village of krishnagiri district Tamil Nadu belongs to a Kongu Vellalar community which is a majority in some of the Districts of Tamil Nadu. He is member of the Trust of Adhiyamaan Educational and Research Institutions, Chennai; St.Peter's Institute of Higher Education and Research Chennai; Lakshmi Sarawathi Educational Trust, Chennai; Kovai Kalaimagal Educational Trust which is managed by his wife Dr. T. Bhanumathi. He has two daughters . ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. "M Thambidurai elected deputy speaker of Lok Sabha". Times of India. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
2. Julie Mariappan (19 May 2014). "Thambidurai appointed AIADMK's parliamentary party leader". The Times of India .
3. "Fifteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile: Thambidurai, Dr. Munisamy". Lok Sabha. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
4. "Thambidurai agrees to provide access to lands". The hindu. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
5. "Report of the Expert Committee" (PDF). UGC. Retrieved 13 January 2019.