Jayarama Reddiar was an Indian politician and former

Member of the Legislative Assembly A Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) is a representative elected to sit in a legislative assembly. The term most commonly refers to members of the legislature of a federated state or an autonomous region, but is also used for several nation ...

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. He was elected to the

Tamil Nadu legislative assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the India, Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members, all of whom are democratically elected using the first-past-the-post system. The presiding office ...

as an

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candidate from Aruppukottai constituency in 1952 election.

K. Kamaraj Kumaraswami Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 2 October 1975), popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Madras from 13 April 1954 to 2 October 1963. He also served as the pr ...

became the Chief Minister of

after defeating him in Sattur constituency in 1957 election.1957 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India
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Living people Indian National Congress politicians from Tamil Nadu Year of birth missing (living people) Madras MLAs 1952–1957 {{TamilNadu-INC-politician-stub