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 Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin ( , born 1 March 1953), often referred to by his initials MKS, is an Indian Tamil politician serving as the 8th and current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The son of the former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, Stalin ...

since 2021. He is the

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of the DMK party since 9 September 2020. He graduated in

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and

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and is an

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by profession. He is a very close confidant to former DMK Supremo M. Karunanidhi and his son DMK President

. 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 Katpadi () is a locality in Vellore, at the northern part of Vellore city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Its railway is located on the gauge line between Chennai-Bangalore and Villupuram-Tirupati. Politics and geography Once a village, Katp ...

constituency in 2006. After the 2006 assembly elections, Durai Murugan was appointed Minister for Public Works in the Government of Tamil Nadu. He was divested of the Public Works Department portfolio on 13 July 2009. He was re-elected from the Katpadi constituency in the elections of 2016. He currently resides in

Kotturpuram Kotturpuram, also known as Kottur, is a neighbourhood in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India and is situated in the Southern banks of the Adyar River. It is surrounded by Nandanam in the North and North-West, Adyar in the South-East, IIT Che ...

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1938 births Living people State cabinet ministers of Tamil Nadu Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Tamil Nadu MLAs 1996–2001 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2001–2006 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2006–2011 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2011–2016 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021 People from Vellore district Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026 Tamil Nadu politicians {{DMK-politician-stub