C. Ve. Shanmugam is an Indian politician and Currently he is a Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Tamil Nadu. He is a four time MLA and senior Minister from AIADMK party in Tamilnadu. He was a former member of the

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the Assembl ...

from Villupuram constituency. As a cadre of

Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief m ...

, he was previously elected to the Tindivanam constituency in 2001 and 2006 elections. He also served as the state's Minister of Education, Law and Commercial Taxes from 2003 to 2006 and from 2011 to 2013 under the leadership of the Chief Minister

Jayalalitha Jayaram Jayalalithaa (24 February 1948 – 5 December 2016) was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 9 February 1989 to 5 December ...

. His father was a previous member of the parliament for the Vandhavasi constituency

He served as the party district secretary for 10 years. He won the 2016 elections in Villupuram constituency again and was appointed Minister of Law and Prisons. In 2017 he was again made a district secretary of AIADMK for Villupuram district. He contested again in Viluppuram constituency but he was defeated by 14,868 votes by R. Lakshmanan. He was arrested on 7 April 2022 for protesting against the cancellation of many subsidy schemes in Tamil Nadu.http://www.dtnext.in/amp/story/tamilnadu/2022/04/07/aiadmk-ex-minister-c-ve-shanmugam-arrested-in-villupuram He also insisted to upper house of the Parliament to change the name of the Madras high court to Tamilnadu High court in the winter session of the Rajya Sabha held on 7 December 2023

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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Living people Tamil Nadu MLAs 2001–2006 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2006–2011 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2011–2016 Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021 1965 births {{AIADMK-politician-stub