S. S. Palanimanickam (born 15 August 1950) is an Indian politician from

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 ...

. He was a member of the

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of India. He represented the

Thanjavur Thanjavur (), also Tanjore, Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is the 11th biggest city in Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is an important center of South Indian religion, art, and architecture. Most of the Gr ...

constituency of

from 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) party. He was the Thanjavur district secretary of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He had been a member of parliament for five times, winning five continuous elections starting 1996. He was also the minister of state in the ministry of finance from 2004 to March 2012 when the DMK pulled out of the ruling UPA coalition government. Internal rivalry in the DMK party emerged between

T. R. Baalu Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu, better known as T. R. Baalu (called as Baalu), is an Indian politician. Baalu did his B.Sc. from New College, Chennai in Madras University and diploma in drafting engineering drawings from Central polytechnic Chenn ...

and S.S. Palanimanickam in 2012, when T. R. Baalu initiated a survey for railway lines in Thanjavur district and

wished to contest from

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and the DMK controversially denied Palanimanickam a ticket however Baalu lost the elections. However Palanimanickam was given the party ticket in the

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and was elected to the

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, lower house of the

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from

again.

Career as a politician

Palanimanickam joined the DMK during the Anti-Hindi agitation of 1965 through his father Subbiah Vanniyar was a staunch Congress party worker and an aide of R Venkataraman and G K Moopanar. General-Secretary, All India Peace and Solidarity, Tamil Nadu Unit; His interest are toward working for the upliftment of weaker sections of the society and has special interests in rural education and upliftment of the rural youth. He led a delegation of students to the then

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for attending youth festival, attended

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in 2001-02 in New York, attended

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Parliamentarians Conference in

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, visited

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and South Africa as member of Indian Parliamentary Delegation during 13th Lok Sabha, visited Arab Countries as member of Peace Delegation in 2004. In 2012, S. S. Palanimanickam signed a

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with

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, being the 9th TIEA signed by India.

Elections contested and positions held

Controversies

In February 2012, CBI lodged strong protest with CVC on the "dirty tricks" of certain Income Tax officials to intimidate crucial witnesses in the

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allegedly at the behest of Minister of State (Finance) SS Palanimanickam. Dr. Swamy, one of the petitioners in the case, said he would approach Supreme Court on this matter. Internal rivalry in the DMK party emerged between Baalu and S.S. Palanimanickam, the MP from Thanjavur constituency and the district secretary of the DMK in Thanjavur. During October 2012, Palanimackam came out open in the media to criticize his senior colleague for showing undue interest in Thanjavur, while he could have done it was his Sriperumbudur constituency. He accused Baalu for bringing all the railways schemes to Thanjavur to get the seat in Thanjavur for 2014 general elections. Referring to the internal conflict, the party leader Karunanidhi came out in the open stating "When I go to sleep, such factional feuds engulf me and make me sleepless". Baalu being the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways, initiated the survey for the Thanjavur-Pattukottai railway line and the Mannargudi-Pattukottai rail project, which is believed to have created the conflict.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Palanimanickam, S. S. Living people Indian Tamil people Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu 1950 births India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 2009–2014 India MPs 2019–present Union ministers of state of India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Union Ministers from Tamil Nadu People from Pudukkottai district India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 People from Thanjavur district