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'''A. S. Munavar Basha''' (born 5 February 1954,{{Citation needed|date=April 2016}} [[Mylapore]], [[Chennai]]) is an [[Politician|Indian Politician]] and a social worker. He is currently the General Secretary of [[Tamil Maanila Congress]].

Basha contested as a [[Tamil Maanila Congress]] candidate for [[Mylapore]] constituency in the [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{Cite web
  | url     = http://www.mylaporetimes.com/2016/04/elections-2016-tmc-puts-up-munawar-basha-as-its-candidate/
  | title   = Mylapore Ties » Elections 2016: TMC puts up Munawar Basha as its candidate
  | website = www.mylaporetimes.com|access-date=2016-04-22
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
  | url     = https://www.ndtv.com/tamil-nadu-news/tamil-maanila-congress-chief-gk-vasan-not-to-contest-tamil-nadu-elections-1397232
  | title   = Tamil Maanila Congress Chief GK Vasan Not To Contest Tamil Nadu Elections
  | publisher = NDTV
  | date      = 19 April 2016
  | agency    = Press Trust of India
  | access-date=28 October 2019
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
  | url     = http://www.tamilnewsportal.com/2016/04/tamil-maanila-congress-candidates-list-released.html
  | title     = Tamil Maanila Congress candidates list released
  | website     = www.tamilnewsportal.com
  | access-date     = 2016-04-22
  | archive-url     = https://web.archive.org/web/20160508092546/http://www.tamilnewsportal.com/2016/04/tamil-maanila-congress-candidates-list-released.html
  | archive-date     = 2016-05-08
  | url-status     = dead
  }}</ref>{{update section|date=December 2017}}

He was educated at the Santhome Higher Secondary School, Mylapore, and graduated from [[The New College, Chennai]]. Munavar Basha was the student union leader in New College.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}}

Munavar Basha is an orator, writer and a social worker. He is the founder and president of Annai Ullam, an old age home in [[Kodambakkam]].<ref>{{Cite news
  | url       = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-downtown/camp-competition-for-elders/article6752393.ece
  | title     = Camp, competition for elders
  | date      = 2015-01-04
  | newspaper = The Hindu
  | language  = en-IN
  | issn      = 0971-751X|access-date=2016-04-22
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
  | url     = http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/Cong-remembers-TMS/2014/05/27/article2246975.ece
  | title   = Cong remembers TMS
  | website = The New Indian Express|access-date=2016-04-22
}}</ref>

== Political life ==

Munavar Basha was inspired by the Perunthalaivar [[K. Kamaraj]]. During his schooldays, he attended many Kamarajar meetings with his father Abdul Samad, inspired by Kamarajar and eventually joined the student congress in 1974. Since then he has been a congress person.

=== Positions held ( 1974–2016) ===

Munavar Basha has held the following positions:
* 1974–1977 – President, District Student Congress
* 1977–1978 – State General Secretary, Student Congress
* 1978–1981 – President, District Youth Congress
* 1984–1987 – State Secretary, Tamil Nadu,  [[Indian National Congress]]
* 1996–2001 – State Secretary, Tamil Nadu [[Tamil Maanila Congress]]
* 2001–2014 – Tamil Maanila Congress Merged with Congress, state working committee member. During this time, Munavar Basha had the following roles
* Railway Recruitment Board Member
* Railway User Committee Member
* Film Censor Board Member
* National Shipping Board Member
* 2014–2016 – General Secretary, [[Tamil Maanila Congress]]

== Other activities ==

#Started and managed Annai Illam in Mylapore for 15 years
# Currently runs Annai Ullam Old age home in [[Kodambakkam]].
# Fought for [[P.S. Higher Secondary School]] Mylapore not to change as a matriculation school which will impact the poor children getting good education for less fee.
# Fought for Poorana Madhu Vilakku in Tamil Nadu
# In 1980s, when the current C.M. Jayalalitha was attacked in the assembly, A.S. Munavar Basha opposed attacking a woman and challenged those who tried to conceal that anything happened. He led a protest to release the assembly video as of what happened.
# Munavar Basha wrote a letter to Karunanidhi, who was the Chief Minister at that period, requesting to name the flyover in Chamiers Road in memory of the leader, G.K Moopanar. Accepting his Request, the flyover was named as G.K.Moopanar Flyover
# Organises several blood donation camps in Mylapore

== References ==
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