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'''A. M. Ponnuranga Mudaliar''' was an Indian politician and former [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] of [[Tamil Nadu]]. He was elected to the [[Tamil Nadu legislative assembly]] from [[Sholinghur (State Assembly Constituency)|Sholinghur constituency]] as an [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) candidate in [[1962 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1962 election]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Madras_1962.pdf |title=1962 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-date=7 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007003737/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Madras_1962.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and as an [[Indian National Congress (Organisation)]] candidate in [[1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1971 election]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf |title=1971 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-date=6 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006131227/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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Ponnuranga and his three brothers, including [[A. M. Munirathinam]], formed a once staunch INC-supporting family that has dominated the political life of the mostly rural area of [[Sholinghur]] since the 1960s, with one or other of the brothers either winning or being runner-up in eight of the twelve state assembly elections between 1962 and 2011. They operate a private bus company that provides both local employment and much-need cheap transport.<ref name="ziegfield">{{cite book |title=Why Regional Parties? |first=Adam |last=Ziegfeld |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-10711-868-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2OKCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 |pages=106–107}}</ref><br />
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Munirathinam was the sitting MLA in Sholinghur at the time of the [[2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2001 state assembly elections]]. However, his INC party had reached an electoral agreement with the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (AIADMK) that meant an AIADMK candidate would be fielded and he was not allowed to contest the seat. Ponnuranga then decided to stand as a candidate of the small [[Puthiya Needhi Katchi]] party, which was allied with the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]. He came a close second.<ref name="ziegfield"/><br />
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