N. V. Natarajan was an Indian politician of the

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; ; DMK) is an Indian political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu, where it is currently the ruling party, and the union territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry, where it is currently the main ...

(DMK) and Member of the Legislative Assembly of

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. He was a founding member of the DMK. He served as the Minister of Labour and Backward Classes in the Tamil Nadu government during 1969–1975.Proceedings of Meghalaya Legislative Assembly
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Biography

N. V. Natarajan was born on 12 November 1912 in a famous Thuluva Vellala merchant family of Madras. Initially, he was a member of the

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. From 1938 to 1946, he was a member of the Justice Party (later renamed as

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). In 1949, he, together with C. N. Annadurai, K. A. Mathiazhagan, E. V. K. Sampath and V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, split from the Dravidar Kazhagam and formed the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He was the party's organisational secretary from 1960 until his death. He unsuccessfully contested the

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and

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assembly elections from the Basin Bridge constituency. In 1964, he was nominated to the

Tamil Nadu Legislative Council Tamil Nadu Legislative Council was the upper house of the former bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initia ...

. He was the minister for Labour and Backward Classes in the M. Karunanidhi cabinet during 1969-75. He died on 3 August 1975. Natarajan and his wife, Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan, had seven children. One of his sons, N. V. N. Somu, later became a member of

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as a DMK candidate. A softspoken trade union leader
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References

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