Maitreyan was born to Indian independence activist K. R. Vasudevan and his wife Manga Vasudevan on 21 November 1955 in a VadagalaiIyengar[2] family. He had his schooling in Madras and graduated in medicine from the Government Medical College,Nagpur. On completion of his graduation,Maitreyan pursued his M. D. in Medical Oncology from the Madras Medical College and did his D. M. in Medical Oncology from the Cancer Institute,Madras University.
Maitreyan practised as an oncologist.
Political career
Right from his early days,Maitreyan was a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).[2] In 1991,he became an executive member of the Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He served as General Secretary of BJP's Tamil Nadu unit from 1995 to 1997,Vice President from 1997 to 1999 and President for sometime in 1999. After getting suspended for anti-party activities,he resigned from the BJP in July 1999,protesting against the party high command's decision to align with the DMK for the 1999 Lok Sabha Elections and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).[3]
He was nominated to Rajya Sabha in an interim vacancy in 2002,following the death of Moopanar in the previous year. He was again nominated as Rajyasabha MP twice in 2007 and 2013.[4] He was expelled from the primary membership of the AIADMK party in 2022.[5] He joined BJP on 9 June 2023 and became its national executive committee member in August 2023.[6][7]
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