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Thiruthuraipoondi Thiruvenkatam Vivekananda Dhinakaran (born 13 December 1963) is an Indian politician and founding General Secretary of Amma Makkal Munneetra Kazhagam. His cadres revered him as Makkal Selvar. In the past he was the Treasurer of
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Party and served as the Member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. He was expelled from the AIADMK in August 2017. He also served as former
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of the
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from
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(2017-2021). He is the nephew of V. K. Sasikala. He won the highly anticipated RK Nagar by-election in December 2017. On 15 March 2018 Dhinakaran launched his political party named
Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (; AMMK) is an Indian Regionalism (politics), regional political party in the Federated state, state of Tamil Nadu. It is founded by the former Member of Parliament (India), member of parliament T. T. V. Dhina ...
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Early life

Dhinakaran was born on 12 December 1963. He is the son of Sasikala's sister Vanithamani, T. Vivekanandam Muniyaraiyar. His younger brother, Baskaran "Bas", had a brief stint in cinema as the protagonist in ''
Thalaivan ''Thalaivan'' () is a 2014 Indian Tamil film directed by Ramesh Selvan and produced by Chithirai Selvan. The film features Baskaran, the younger brother of politician T. T. V. Dhinakaran and Nikesha Patel in the lead roles, while the ensemble ...
'' (2014). Dhinakaran is described as a cool-headed and religious person.


Political career

Dhinakaran was a Member of Lok Sabha, representing
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from 1999 to 2004, and was runner-up in the seat at 2004 general election when he was defeated by J. M. Aaron Rashid. In the 2017 R.K. Nagar by-election, he defeated
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's candidate E. Madhusudhanan with a huge margin of votes as an independent candidate. He assumed the office of MLA on 29 December 2017. Dinakaran was reinducted into the AIADMK and appointed deputy general secretary on 15 February 2017, hours before V. K. Sasikala left to surrender herself in the Bengaluru court to serve the jail term in a disproportionate assets case. He was expelled from the party in August 2017 and launched his own party,
Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazagam The Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (; AMMK) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is founded by the former member of parliament T. T. V. Dhinakaran at Melur on 15 March 2018 as a breakaway faction from the All ...
(AMMK), on 15 March 2018. Dhinakaran announced that Sasikala would be the general secretary while he would be the deputy general secretary. On 19 April 2019, he was elected as the general secretary. He failed to win his seat to
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in Kovilpatti Assembly constituency in
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. Dhinakaran anncounced on 11 March 2024 that his party was joining the
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led by the
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(BJP) ahead of the
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, assuring it of unconditional support. It failed to win from any of the two seats, although Dhinakaran managed to become the runner-up in the elections to the
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Lawsuit

On 17 April 2017, Delhi police registered a case against Dhinakaran regarding an allegation of attempting to bribe the
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(ECI) for the AIADMK's
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. It was claimed that a middle-man named Sukesh Chandrasekhar was raided and arrested in Delhi and was found with 13 million, allegedly meant as a bribe for the ECI in exchange for the symbol. Dinakaran was charged with conspiracy and corruption in the case. The Tis Hazari Special Court granted him bail on the grounds that the police had failed to identify the public official allegedly bribed, accepting the argument made by his lawyer
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Election Performance


Lok Sabha


Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections


Notes


References


External links


Official biographical sketch at Lok Sabha website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dhinakaran, T. T. V. Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam politicians Living people 1963 births India MPs 1999–2004 Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu People from Theni district Indian political party founders Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam politicians