V. Narayanasamy

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V. Narayanasamy ( Tamil வி. நாராயணசாமி ; born May 30, 1947 in Pondicherry , then still part of French India , today Puducherry, India ) is an Indian politician. He has been Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Puducherry since June 6, 2016 .

biography

Youth and education

V. Narayanasamy was born in 1947 in a small village in Pondicherry (from 2006: Puducherry) to Velu and Iswary. At that time, the city and surroundings were still a French colonial possession under the name of Pondicherry. Only in 1954 did the area come to India, which had become independent in 1947. The father worked as a toddy tapper in the village of Thavalakkuppam, ie he earned his living by tapping palm sap to make palm wine . His son V. Narayanasamy was the first family member to receive higher education. He first attended the Tagore Arts College in Pondicherry, where he obtained an MA , and then the Annamalai University in Chidambaram (according to other information, the Madras Law College ), where he studied law and obtained a Master of Law (ML). He then worked as a lawyer for a while.

Political career

In the 1970s he joined the Congress Party and has been mainly active in Delhi since the mid-1980s, but managed to maintain the connection to his native Pondicherry and there to maintain a certain influence in the local organization of the Congress Party. His unconditional loyalty was valued at Congress Party headquarters. 1985 to 1991 and 1991 to 1997 he was a member of the Pondicherry in the Rajya Sabha , the “house of states” of the Indian parliament .

In the first cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , Narayanasamy was Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs from 2008 to 2009. In the parliamentary elections in India in 2009 he won the constituency of Puducherry with a clear majority of 49.4% in front of all competitors. In the subsequent legislative period, he worked as Minister of State (State Secretary) in the Manmohan Singh II cabinet in various functions: 2009 for planning and parliamentary matters, from January 19, 2011 to October 20, 2011 for personnel, public complaints, pensions and prime minister’s affairs, and from January 19, 2011 to July 19, 2011 for parliamentary affairs. In the parliamentary elections in India in 2014 , Narayanasamy ran again in the constituency of Puducherry for the Congress party, but lost with 26.4% of the vote against its competitor R. Radhakrishnan ( AINRC ), who came to 34.6%.

The election to the parliament of Puducherry on May 16, 2016 was won by the congress party in the electoral alliance with the DMK . A discussion then arose as to who should fill the post of chief minister. Several people have shown interest, including ex-Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam . Ultimately, after lengthy negotiations in which the Congress Party headquarters in Delhi played a decisive role, it was agreed on V. Narayanasamy as the new Chief Minister. This was not without controversy. The criticism was sparked above all by the fact that Narayanasamy did not stand for election in a constituency and, accordingly, did not win a mandate. In his long career as a politician, Narayanasamy only ran direct elections twice (2009 and 2014) and won once (2009). In the press he was occasionally referred to as "the chief minister whom almost nobody wants". He was sworn in as Chief Minister on June 6, 2016. Since he did not have a mandate, he had to be elected to parliament in a by-election within the next 6 months in order to be able to keep his office as Chief Minister. He succeeded in doing so on November 22, 2016, when he won a by-election in the constituency of Nellithope against the AIADMK candidate.

Personal

On June 19, 1977, Narayanasamy married Kalai Selvi, with whom he has a son and a daughter. Volleyball and badminton are given as his hobbies .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Detailed Profile: Shri V. Narayanasamy. india.gov.in (archive), accessed on August 27, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ a b R. Sivaraman, S. Prasad: Narayanasamy to be Puducherry CM. The Hindu, May 28, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Kavita Kishore: In Puducherry, V Narayanasamy is a chief minister whom almost no one wants. firstpost.com, June 6, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on August 27, 2016 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  5. ^ V Narayanasamy sworn-in as chief minister of Puducherry. firstpost.com, June 6, 2016, accessed August 27, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Bosco Dominique: Narayanasamy wins Nellithope bypoll, to continue as chief minister. The Times of India, November 22, 2016, accessed September 5, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Narayanasamy, V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES வி. நாராயணசாமி
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Pondicherry , then French India , now India