Krishnasami Thulasiah Vandayar (11 May 1929 – 17 May 2021) was an Indian politician and head of the

Poondi estate Poondi estate is a permanently settled ''zamindari'' estate in the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the seco ...

in the

Thanjavur district Thanjavur District is one of the Districts of Tamil Nadu, 38 districts of the States and territories of India, state of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. Its headquarters is Thanjavur. The district is located in the delta of the Cauvery River ...

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 ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. He was the member of

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past ...

for Thanjavur from 1991 to 1996. He was the chairman of the Managing Committee of the AVVM Pushpam College. He died on 17 May 2021 (Monday) at Chennai Saligram.

Early life

Vandayar was born on 11 May 1929 to A. Krishnasami Vandayar, the ''

zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...

'' of Poondi. He was educated at the Loyola College, Chennai.

Personal life

Vandayar married Padmavathi and had one son T Krishnasamy Vandayar and a daughter.

Political career

Vandayar was a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

from an early age. In the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, he was elected from the

Thanjavur Lok Sabha constituency Thanjavur is a Lok Sabha (Parliament of India) constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 30 of 39. Assembly segments In 2007 the Election Commission of India revised and redrew this Thanjavur Lok Sabha con ...

defeating S. S. Palanimanickam 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 ...

party. He served till the 1996 elections which he lost. Vandayar served as the president of the Thanjavur District Congress Committee.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vandayar, K. Thulasiah 1929 births 2021 deaths India MPs 1991–1996 Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu People from Thanjavur district Loyola College, Chennai alumni