K. Pitchandi, also known as K. Pichandi, is an Indian politician and the current Deputy Speaker of

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. A. K. Aranganathan only defeated K. Pitchandi in 2011. Pitchandi continues to be the speaker. His record was broken in 2011 - 2016.

Politics

Pitchandi was elected to the

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from Tiruvannamalai constituency as a

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(DMK) candidate in the

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and

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. He also contested the constituency in the 1991 elections, when he finished as runner-up to V. Kannan of the

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. Pitchandi was the Minister for Housing and Urban Development in the Tamil Nadu Cabinet from 1996 to 2001. He stood as a candidate in

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in the Kilpennathur constituency, where he finished as runner-up to A. K. Aranganathan of the

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(AIADMK) party. Pitchandi remained loyal to the DMK party, for which he was rewarded with the mostly honorific position of deputy whip in May 2016. He had won the Kilpennathur seat in the elections of 2021 to become MLA once again, after which he was made the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. Pitchandi was instrumental in persuading E. V. Velu to transfer his allegiance to the DMK from the AIADMK. Velu, who had already served twice as an AIADMK MLA, was elected to Pitchandi's former seat in

Tiruvannamalai Tiruvannamalai (Tamil: ''Tiruvaṇṇāmalai'' IPA: , otherwise spelt ''Thiruvannamalai''; ''Trinomali'' or ''Trinomalee'' on British records) is a city and the administrative headquarters of Tiruvannamalai District in the Indian state of ...

as a DMK member from 2011.

Personal life

On 13 September 2019, his daughter Aishwarya married Arumainayagam (alias Anbu), the son of late

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References

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