Samsudeen is an Indian politician and former

Member of the Legislative Assembly A member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to a legislative assembly. Most often, the term refers to a subnational assembly such as that of a state, province, or territory of a country. S ...

. 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

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 ...

candidate from Tenkasi constituency in 1971 election and Kadayanallur constituency in 1989 election.1989 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Tamil Nadu MLAs 1971–1976 {{DMK-politician-stub