Durai Murugan

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Durai Murugan (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian politician and lawyer. He is the Minister for Water Resources under the government of M. K. Stalin since 2021. He is the general secretary of the DMK since 9 September 2020. He graduated in MA and BL and is an advocate by profession. He is a very close confidant to former DMK Supremo M. Karunanidhi and his son DMK President M. K. Stalin. He also worked as Treasurer, Principal Secretary and Deputy General secretary of the DMK party.

Durai Murugan was first elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971 and has been elected ten times since. He was elected from the Katpadi constituency in 2006. After the 2006 assembly elections, Durai Murugan was appointed Minister for Public Works in the Government of Tamil Nadu.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[1]

He was divested of the Public Works Department portfolio on 13 July 2009.[2]

He was re-elected from the Katpadi constituency in the elections of 2016.[3]

He currently resides in Kotturpuram, Chennai.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He was born in 1938 in Gudiyatham, North Arcot, Madras Presidency (now Vellore District, Tamil Nadu) to Duraisamy and Thavasi Ammal. He belongs to the Vanniyar community, a numerically-large caste found throughout Northern Tamil Nadu. He is married to Santhakumari and has one son, Kathir Anand, who has served as the MP from Vellore since 2019.

Elections contested and results

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections

Year Constituency Party Votes % Opponent Opponent Party Opponent Votes % Result Margin %
2021 Katpadi Template:Party name with color 85,140 46.18 V Ramu Template:Party name with color 84,394 45.78 Won 746 0.40
2016 90,534 50.90 Appu S.R.K 66,588 37.44 Won 23,946 13.46
2011 75,064 49.55 72,091 47.59 Won 2,973 1.96
2006 86,824 57.45 Narayanan.B 51,677 34.19 Won 35,147 23.26
2001 64,187 49.47 Natarajan A.K. Template:Party name with color 56,185 43.30 Won 8,002 6.17
1996 75,439 61.20 Pandurangan.K Template:Party name with color 34,432 27.93 Won 41,007 33.27
1991 36,866 33.02 K.M. Kalaiselvi 63,005 56.43 Lost -26,139 -23.41
1989 43,181 43.41 Margabandu R 23,344 23.47 Won 19,837 19.94
1984 36,839 39.62 G. Ragupathi 53,077 57.08 Lost -16,238 -17.46
1980 Ranipet 44,318 53.70 Renu. N 37,064 44.91 Won 7,254 8.79
1977 31,940 43.53 Wahab K.A. Template:Party name with color 16,643 22.68 Won 15,297 20.85
1971 Katpadi 37,487 57.79 Dhandayuthapani Template:Party name with color 20,919 32.25 Won 16,568 25.54

References

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