Dindigul C. Sreenivasan (born 1 April 1948) is an Indian politician and former four term
Member of Parliament of India elected from
Tamil Nadu
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. He is currently serving as Member Of Legislative Assembly for
Dindigul Constituency since 2016. He is one of senior most member of the party
AIADMK
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian Regionalism (politics), regional political party with great influence in the Federated state, state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory) ...
.He served as
Minister for Forests
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for Tamil Nadu from 2016 to 2021.
He is the
treasurer
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Government
The treasury o ...
of the
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief mini ...
(AIADMK) From 11 July 2022.
He was elected to the
Lok Sabha
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from
Dindigul constituency as an AIADMK candidate in the Indian general elections of
1989
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,
1991
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,
1998
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Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
and
1999
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in Tamil Nadu.
Elected in Legislative Assembly Election 2016 and 2021 in
Dindigul
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assembly Constituency for consecutive 2 terms, he belongs to
Piramalai Kallar Community.
Jayalalithaa
Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 9 February 1989 to 5 December 2 ...
appointed Sreenivasan as Minister for Forests in May 2016. This was his first cabinet post in the
Government of Tamil Nadu
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.
On 11 July 2022, C. Sreenivasan was made
Treasurer
A treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury of an organization. The significant core functions of a corporate treasurer include cash and liquidity management, risk management, and corporate finance.
Government
The treasury o ...
of
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief mini ...
.
References
Living people
1948 births
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu
State cabinet ministers of Tamil Nadu
People from Madurai district
People from Dindigul district
Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026
Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians
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