Murasoli Maran
Murasoli Maran ( Tamil : முரசொலி மாறன் Muracoli Maran [ muɾəsoli maːrən ] * 17th August 1934 in Tirukkuvalai ; † 23. November 2003 in Chennai ) was an Indian politician of the regional party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) from the state of Tamil Nadu . From 1967 until his death he was a member of the Indian parliament and the most important representative of the regional party DMK in the capital New Delhi . Maran was Minister for Urban Development from 1989 to 1990, Minister of Industry from 1996 to 1998, and Minister of Trade and Industry from 1999 until his death in 2003. Maran was also an editor and screenwriter .
biography
Origin and entry into politics
Murasoli Maran was born on August 17, 1934 as Thyagaraja Sundaram in the village of Tirukkuvalai in what is now the Nagapattinam district near Tiruvarur . He later changed his Sanskrit maiden name to the Tamil name Maran for linguistic reasons . He received the name affix Murasoli after the magazine of the same name that he published. Maran completed his education with a Master of Arts at Pachaiappa's College in Madras (Chennai).
During his student days Murasoli Maran came into contact with the Dravidian Movement , which at that time advocated an independent identity for the Tamils and became a member of the Tamil nationalist party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). In 1965 he took part in the anti-Hindi protests that broke out in Tamil Nadu when the Indian government tried to make Hindi the sole official language and was arrested in connection with this.
As a member of parliament and minister
In 1967 Murasoli Maran was elected for the first time in a by-election from the constituency of Madras South to the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the all-India parliament. The by-election was due after DMK leader CN Annadurai had given up the seat he had won in the Lok Sabha election in 1967 in order to go to Chief Minister Tamil Nadu after the DMK won the parliamentary election in Tamil Nadu at the same time become. In the next Lok Sabha election in 1971 , Maran defended his constituency, but lost it in 1977 to the candidate of the Congress party . Instead, Maran was elected to the Rajya Sabha , the entire Indian upper house, of which he remained a member of parliament until 1995. In 1996 , Maran was re-elected to the Lok Sabha from the Madras Central constituency. He also defended the constituency in the new elections in 1998 and 1999 .
As a member of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Murasoli Maran was the face of DMK in the capital New Delhi and played an important role in arranging DMK's participation in government on a pan-Indian level. In 1989, the DMK joined a party alliance led by Janata Dal (JD), which succeeded in defeating the congress party that had ruled until then, and participated in VP Singh's government from 1989 to 1990 . Maran himself held the office of Minister for Urban Development. Between 1996 and 1998 DMK was again a member of a government alliance led by the JD. Maran served as Industry Minister under Prime Ministers HD Deve Gowda and IK Gujral during this time . In 1999 Maran was in charge of the maneuver, controversial within the DMK, to move to the camp of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The DMK then participated in the BJP-led Atal Bihari Vajpayee 's government , with Maran receiving the post of Minister for Trade and Industry. Maran's tenure was remembered primarily for his tough negotiating position at the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Doha in 2001.
As editor and author
In addition to being a politician, Murasoli Maran excelled as a journalist and screenwriter. He was the editor of the DMK party organ Murasoli ("drum beat") and was responsible for most of the DMK's election programs from 1977 onwards. Like many actors in the Dravidian movement, Murasoli Maran also had close ties to the Tamil film industry . He wrote the script for 20 Tamil films and directed two himself.
death
Murasoli Maran died on November 23, 2003 at the age of 69 after a long illness in a Chennai hospital.
Familiar
Murasoli Maran is a nephew of M. Karunanidhi , who has headed DMK since 1969 and was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu several times . Since 1963 Murasoli Maran was married to Mallika Maran. The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. The older son Kalanidhi Maran (* 1964) is the owner of the Sun Group , which includes the influential television station Sun TV . The younger son Dayanidhi Maran (* 1966) took over the political legacy of his father after Murasoli Maran's death: he inherited Murasoli Maran's constituency in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections and served as a minister in the Pan-Indian constituency from 2004 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2011 Manmohan Singh's government .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Profile of Murasoli Marans on the Lok Sabha website
- TS Subramanian: "Obituary: A man of many parts". In: Frontline 20.25 (December 6-19, 2003) .
- "Murasoli Maran, 1934-2003". In: The Hindu, November 25, 2003.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maran, Murasoli |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | மாறன், முரசொலி (Tamil) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tirukkuvalai |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 2003 |
| Place of death | Chennai |