Rani Sarubala Rajammani Ayi Sahib (born 7 October 1958), popularly known as Mayor Sarubala Tondaiman, is an Indian politician and member of the royal house of

Pudukkottai Pudukkottai Municipal Corporation is the administrative headquarters of Pudukkottai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is one of the oldest Heritage city located on the banks of the Vellar River. It has been ruled, at different t ...

. She is the Organising Secretary of AMMK. She was elected mayor of

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City Corporation two times (2001 and 2005) and was the president of Trichy Unit

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for a brief time. She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and joined the

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(

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) on 15 September 2016. Later, she sided with RK Nagar MLA Dhinakaran to become a higher office holder in the

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Shooting

Sarubala was a keen rifle shooter in her early days. She is the current treasurer of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club.

Early and personal life

Tondaiman was born on 7 October 1958 to Subramaniam, a superintendent engineer of the Tamil Nadu Highways Department and his wife Sarojini, granddaughter of late Sri Bhaskara Tondaiman IFS from Tirunelveli sister of S Ramasundaram IAS, former public works secretary and sister-in-law of Archana Ramasundram IPS. Tondaiman has a masters in arts and philosophy. She is married to Rajah R. Rajagopala Tondaiman, who is the titular Rajah of Pudukottai, the president of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club and a vice president of the Tamil Nadu Shooting Association. The couple have a son, R. Prithviraj Tondaiman, who is an international trap shooter and the secretary of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club, and a daughter, Radha Niranjani, who is also a national trap shooter and the joint treasurer of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club.

Politics

From her early days, Sarubala has been an active member of the

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. She served as the

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from 2001 to 2009. During the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she stood from the

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and lost to P. Kumar consecutively of the

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(ADMK) by 4,335 votes and 1,00,300 votes respectively. Sarubala is currently the joint convenor of the Movement for the Restoration of Vedic Wisdom. She is also the secretary of ACME Matriculation School, Tiruchirappalli, and the Pudukkottai Mannar Educational and Charitable Trust and Mannar Arts & Science College, Tiruchirappalli. She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on 15 September 2016. She contested unsuccessfully in the 2019 parliamentary elections in Tiruchirappalli constituency as an independent candidate.

References

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