V. V. Rajan Chellappa is an Indian Politician and former

Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well ...

Madurai Corporation Madurai Municipal Corporation is the civic body which administers the city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. Madurai is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Formed on 1 May 1971 as the first Municipal Corporation in Tamil Nadu post inde ...

and also he is MLA from

Thiruparankundram Thiruparankundram, also spelled Tirupparankundram or Tiruparangundram, is a town in Madurai district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is about from Madurai city and constitutes the southwest part of the greater Madurai city (Municipal Corporation). The ...

. As a cadre 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 mi ...

party, he previously served as a member of

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

. from 1992 - 1998. Chellappa polled 1,03,683 votes defeating his nearest rival S. K. Ponnuthai of the

CPI(M) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxist–Leninist communist political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the na ...

who secured 74,194 votes for

Legislative Assembly in April 2021.

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Rajan Chellappa is Mayor

Mayor Election Oct 2011
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Living people Politicians from Madurai Tamil Nadu municipal councillors Mayors of places in Tamil Nadu 1949 births Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2021–2026 Tamil Nadu politicians {{AIADMK-politician-stub