Pasumpon Tha Krishnan (10 October 1937 – 20 May 2003) was an Indian politician. Krishnan was born on 10 October 1937 at Kombukkaranendal village,

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, in 1937. He was educated at Raja Dorai Singam Memorial College in

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and at

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. An agriculturalist by occupation, Krishnan became involved in social work as the secretary of the

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in his native village. He took a keen interest in serving the poor and otherwise disadvantaged and was arrested on several occasions in connection with various agitations in favour of the people of Tamil Nadu. Krishnan was chairman of the Panchayat Union in

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from 1970 to 1976 and president of Theethanpettai village panchayat from 1970 to 1976. Krishnan was elected to the Fourth Lok Sabha in 1967-1971 and to the Fifth Lok Sabha in 1971-1977, on both occasions from the Sivanganga parliamentary constituency. Thereafter, in 1996, he was elected from Sivaganga state assembly constituency to the

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as a

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(DMK) candidate. Krishnan was Minister of State Highways and Ports in the

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from 1998 to 2001. Krishnan was murdered on 20 May 2003. He was hacked to death near his K. K. Nagar residence on 20 May 2003. Several arrests were made and when the DMK came to power in Tamil Nadu in 2006, the case was transferred to

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after the

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(AIADMK) sought intervention by the

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. The AIADMK said that a fair trial might not be possible in a Tamil Nadu court because the primary accused, M. K. Alagiri, was the son of

Karunanidhi Muthuvel Karunanidhi (3 June 1924 – 7 August 2018), also known as Kalaignar (Artist), was an Indian writer and politician who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for almost two decades over five terms between 1969 and 2011. He had the ...

, by then the DMK

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. Alagiri and his co-accused were found not guilty in 2008 due to lack of evidence.

References

External links

Official biographical sketch in Parliament of India website
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