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Shri S. Anbalagan is a politician from All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, member of the Parliament of India representing Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.He is the vice-president of the AMMK (holds additional post of the president of the AMMK).


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