Kaveripattinam Poongavanam Munusamy (born June 7, 1952) is an Indian politician and incumbent member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Krishnagiri Constituency

Krishnagiri (State Assembly Constituency)

Krishnagiri is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. It is included in the Krishnagiri Parliamentary constituency. This constituency is delimited in the year 2008 and it consists of the following areas....

. Munusamy completed his Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 from Govt. Arts College, Krishnagiri during 1971-1974 and later graduated Bachelor of Law from Government Law College, Chennai. He is currently the Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development, Govt. of Tamil Nadu.

Munusamy also serves as district Secretary, AIADMK and secretary of Krishnagiri district Anna employees union.

Political career

He joined the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in the year 1972. He rose to the position of Head of the District Youth wing in the party by 1988. He contested in the 1991

Tamil Nadu state assembly election, 1991

The tenth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 24 June 1991. The Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - Indian National Congress alliance won the elections in a landslide and ADMK leader J. Jayalalithaa became the chief minister. This was her first term in office...

 Tamil Nadu state assembly elections where he emerged successful from Kaveripattinam constituency

Kaveripattinam (State Assembly Constituency)

Kaveripattinam is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu....

. Later he was elected to the 12th Lok Sabha

12th Lok Sabha

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 from Krishnagiri Constituency

Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)

-Before 2009:#Hosur#Thalli#Kaveripattinam#Krishnagiri#Bargur#Palacode -2009-present:#Uthangarai #Bargur#Krishnagiri#Veppanahalli#Hosur#Thalli-Members of Parliament:- Election results :...

. During his tenure as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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, he was a member in various parliamentry committees including Committee on Agriculture, Committee to review the rate of dividend payable by the Railway Undertakings to General Revenues, Consultative Committee of Ministry of Science and Technology and other Science Departments. Then he aroused victorious in the 2001

Tamil Nadu state assembly election, 2001

The twelfth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on May 10, 2001. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam -led front won the elections and its leader, J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Chief Minister, even though she could not legally run as MLA in this election. She was unanimously...

 Tamil Nadu state assembly elections from the same Kaveripattinam constituency

Kaveripattinam (State Assembly Constituency)

Kaveripattinam is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu....

. From January 2011, he is serving as the Krishnagiri District

Krishnagiri District

Krishnagiri is a district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The municipal town of Krishnagiri is the district headquarters. In Tamil Nadu, E-Governance was first introduced at Krishnagiri district under the National e-Governance Project in Revenue, Social Welfare departments on a pilot basis...

 secretary for the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.

In the recent 2011 Tamil Nadu assembly elections, he was able to gain 89,776 votes against his rival Syed Ghiyas-Ul-Haq of Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

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 from Krishnagiri Constituency

Krishnagiri (State Assembly Constituency)

Krishnagiri is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. It is included in the Krishnagiri Parliamentary constituency. This constituency is delimited in the year 2008 and it consists of the following areas....

winning by a margin of 29,097 votes. At present 2011-2016, He is serving as a minister for Municipal Administration, Rural Development, Municipal Administration, Panchayats and Panchayat Unions, Poverty Alleviation Programmes, Rural Indebtedness, Urban and Rural Water Supply...