07-04-2009, 04:26 PM
4th July 2009
by R.Rajagopalan
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FORMER UNION MINISTER TO QUIT BJP</b>
From Our Delhi Bureau
NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister of State Su Thirunavukkarasar is quitting the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and in all likelihood he is to join the Congress in Tamil Nadu. He is a national secretary of the party and a Rajya Sabha member.
The 60-year old leader, who unsuccessfully contested Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu this time, is also resigning from the Rajya Sabha to which he was elected in 2004 from Madhya Pradesh.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999 on the BJP ticket from Pudukottai, but the seat went to AIADMK in 2004 in the seat-sharing formula and hence the BJP accommodated him in the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh.
Thirunavukkarasar always gave his permanent address in Pudukottai district unlike members elected from a state that is not their own own home state always showed their permanent address in that state like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showing it in Guwahati, Rajya Sabha Opposition leader Arun Jaitley in Ahmedabad and Lok Sabha Opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani in Ahmedabad.
Originally belonging to the ADMK of late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran (MGR), Thirunavukkarasar was a member of the Tamil Nadu Assembly for 22 years from 1977, during which he has been a cabinet minister as also the deputy speaker of the Assembly.
He subsequently got elected to the Lok Sabha and joined the NDA government as a minister of state for shipping in 2002-03 and then as minister of state for communication and information technology in 2003-04.
Being a protege of MGR, he was never liked by AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa fearing a sort of threat to her political fortunes from him and hence she prevented him the Pudukottai seat in 2004 by claiming it for her own party.
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by R.Rajagopalan
<b>
FORMER UNION MINISTER TO QUIT BJP</b>
From Our Delhi Bureau
NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister of State Su Thirunavukkarasar is quitting the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and in all likelihood he is to join the Congress in Tamil Nadu. He is a national secretary of the party and a Rajya Sabha member.
The 60-year old leader, who unsuccessfully contested Ramanathapuram Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu this time, is also resigning from the Rajya Sabha to which he was elected in 2004 from Madhya Pradesh.
He was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999 on the BJP ticket from Pudukottai, but the seat went to AIADMK in 2004 in the seat-sharing formula and hence the BJP accommodated him in the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh.
Thirunavukkarasar always gave his permanent address in Pudukottai district unlike members elected from a state that is not their own own home state always showed their permanent address in that state like Prime Minister Manmohan Singh showing it in Guwahati, Rajya Sabha Opposition leader Arun Jaitley in Ahmedabad and Lok Sabha Opposition leader Lal Krishna Advani in Ahmedabad.
Originally belonging to the ADMK of late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran (MGR), Thirunavukkarasar was a member of the Tamil Nadu Assembly for 22 years from 1977, during which he has been a cabinet minister as also the deputy speaker of the Assembly.
He subsequently got elected to the Lok Sabha and joined the NDA government as a minister of state for shipping in 2002-03 and then as minister of state for communication and information technology in 2003-04.
Being a protege of MGR, he was never liked by AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa fearing a sort of threat to her political fortunes from him and hence she prevented him the Pudukottai seat in 2004 by claiming it for her own party.
http://janamejayan.wordpress.com/