Chengalvarayan Kuppusami (13 December 1926 – 19 April 2013) was a member of the
Lok Sabha
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of
India
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from 1998 to 2009. He represented the
Chennai North constituency of
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil languag ...
and was a member of the
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 ...
(DMK) political party.
He was a
trade union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (s ...
ist and the president of the labour wing of the DMK political party.
References
External links
Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India websiteMembers of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website
Indian Tamil people
Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu
1926 births
2013 deaths
India MPs 2004–2009
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1999–2004
People from Tiruvannamalai district
Politicians from Chennai
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