N. Rangasamy

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N. Rangasamy

N. Rangasamy ( Tamil : ந. ரங்கசாமி [ ˈraŋɡəsaːmi ]; also Rangaswamy ; born August 4, 1950 in Puducherry ) is an Indian politician. He is chairman of the All India NR Congress party, which he founded, and has been Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry) since May 2011 . He previously held this office for the Indian National Congress from 2001 to 2008 .

biography

N. Rangasamy was born on August 4, 1950 in Puducherry into a Tamil Hindu family of the Vanniyar caste . The Vanniyar are counted among the lower castes according to the traditional caste hierarchy , but dominate demographically in Puducherry. He trained as a lawyer and is unmarried. During his student days, Rangasamy, inspired by the example of K. Kamaraj , turned to politics and joined the Congress Party.

In the elections to the parliament of Puducherrys, N. Rangasamy stood for the first time in 1990 in the constituency of Thattanchavadi as a candidate, but lost. In the new election, which followed in 1991, he was able to move into parliament. The constituency of Thattanchavadi also defended in the next elections in 1996, 2000, 2001 and 2006. After the election victory of the Congress party in 1991, N. Rangasamy became Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam . In 1996 he became Minister of Public Affairs and in 2000 he was Minister of Education. In October 2001 Rangasamy succeeded P. Shanmugam for the first time as Chief Minister Pondicherry. After the parliamentary elections in Puducherry in 2006 he was confirmed in office, but in September 2008 he lost office to V. Vaithilingam after a cabinet revolt.

After his fall, N. Rangasamy retired from active politics for two years. In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Puducherry, however, he reported back in January 2011 and founded the All India NR Congress (AINRC) party as a split from the Congress party. The AINRC succeeded in rallying a large part of the congress supporters and defeated the alliance of the congress party and DMK in the parliamentary elections in April 2011 in an electoral alliance with the AIADMK party . This ended the twenty-year phase of congressional rule in Puducherry. Rangasamy himself ran at the same time in the two constituencies of Indira Nagar and Kadirkamam , which had been formed from his old constituency Thattanchavadi, and was successful in both. On May 17, 2011, N. Rangasamy took over the post of Chief Minister of Puducherry for the second time.

politics

N. Rangasamy is considered to be close to the people and has a demonstratively modest lifestyle. Even after his election as Chief Minister, he continued to ride a motorcycle instead of being chauffeured in a company car. During his time as chief minister, programs such as the introduction of a free breakfast for school children, help for slum dwellers to build decent houses or infrastructure projects to improve the drinking water supply helped him to gain some popularity. Nonetheless, he was accused by critics of caring too much about his own constituency rather than the entire Union territory.

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SURNAME Rangasamy, N.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rangaswamy, N .; ரங்கசாமி, ந. (tamil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Pondicherry