Vivilian Richards Johnkumar is an Indian politician. He was elected to the
Puducherry Legislative Assembly
The Puducherry Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian union territory (UT) of Puducherry, which comprises four districts: Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahé and Yanam. Out of eight union territories of India, only three ...
from
Nellithope
Nellithope is a village in the Papanasam taluk
Papanasam taluk is a taluk of Thanjavur district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Papanasam.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, the taluk ...
as a member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
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. He defeated
V. Karthikeyan
''V.'' is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo- bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the W ...
of
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...
by 496 votes in
2021 Puducherry Assembly election.
References
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Puducherry
Puducherry MLAs 2021–2026
Puducherry politicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Indian politicians
People from Puducherry
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