Anbil P. Dharmalingam was a politician from the Indian state of

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

and founder member of

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

. The

Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute Anbil Dharmalingam Agricultural College and Research Institute is an agricultural college at Navalur Kuttappattu village near Tiruchirappalli. It is part of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. It offers undergraduate degree in agriculture. ...

is named after him.

Politics

Anbil Dharmalingam was one of the founder-members of the

(DMK). When the DMK was elected to power in 1967, Dharmalingam served as the Minister for Local Administration and Agriculture a various times. At a rally held in North Arcot district on 7 and 8 April 1973 in which Dharmalingam and five other Ministers presided, he declared that formation of an independent Tamil Nadu was the aim of the DMK.

Electoral records

He was elected to the

Tamil Nadu legislative assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post voting, First-past-the-post system. The pres ...

as a

candidate from Lalgudi constituency in

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and

1980 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1980. Africa * 1980 Angolan legislative election * 1980 Cameroonian presidential election * 1980 Cape Verdean parliamentary election * 1980 Gabonese legislative election * 1980 Guinean legislative ...

and from Tiruchirappalli - II constituency in 1971 election.

Family & Death

Anbil Dharmalingam died in 1993,His sons

Anbil Periyasamy Anbil Periyasamy is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He is the son of former DMK Minister Anbil P. Dharmalingam and younger brother of Anbil Poyyamozhi. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislati ...

and

Anbil Poyyamozhi Anbil Poyyamozhi was an Indian politician and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Tamil Nadu. He was a close confidant and friend of current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. K. Stalin. Poyyamozhi was elected to the Tamil Nad ...

have been members of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and have served in Tamil Nadu legislative assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dharmalingam, Anbil P. Dravidian movement Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians 1919 births 1993 deaths