Former DMK minister Veerapandi Arumugam Passes away
Posted on: 23/Nov/2012 11:38:44 AM
Former Minister DMK leader Veerapandi S Arumugam passed away at a private hospital in Chennai today.
He was born on 26 January 1937 in Pollavari, Salem in a vanniyar family. He has three sons.
Political career
- DMK Member from 1957
- President, Poolavari Panchayat Board, 1958–1976
- President, Poolavari Village Co-operative Thrift Society, 1959–1976
- Chairman, Veerapandi Panchayat Union, 1970–1976
- President, Salem Central Co-operative Bank, 1973–1976;
- Member, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, 1962–1967, 1967–1971, 1971– - - 1976, 1989–1991, 1996–2001, 2006–2011;
- Member, Tamil Nadu Legislative Council, 1978–1984
- Minister for Rural Development and Local Administration, 1989–1990
- Minister for Agriculture, 1990–1991, 1996–2001, 2006–2011
- He lost his MLA election 2011 seat to his niece Mrs. VijayaLakshmi Palanisami of ADMK with big Margin from Sankari constituency.
