V. S. Vijay is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Vellore constituency. He represented the

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party. Vijay holds an

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degree and was the Minister for Health in the

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. He had defeated the former MLA, C. Gnanasekaran, who held the Vellore constituency for about 20 years by charan kumar. The elections of 2016 resulted in his constituency being won by P. Karthikeyan.

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Tamil Nadu MLAs 2011–2016 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Living people State cabinet ministers of Tamil Nadu Year of birth missing (living people) {{AIADMK-politician-stub