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| name = Dalit Ezhilmalai<br />
| birth_date = 24 June 1945<br />
| death_date = 6 May 2020 (aged 74)<br />
| birth_place = [[Chengalpattu]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]<br />
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[India]]<br />
| branch = {{Army|India}}<br />
| battles = [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]<br />
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]<br />
| party = [[Pattali Makkal Katchi|PMK]]<br>[[AIADMK]]<br />
| termstart = 1998<br />
| termend = 1999<br />
| predecessor = V. Ganesan<br />
| successor = [[E. Ponnuswamy]]<br />
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'''Dalit Ezhilmalai ''' (24 June 1945 – 6 May 2020) was an Indian union minister. He was a leader of the [[Pattali Makkal Katchi]] (PMK), and was Union Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare (Independent Charge) during the [[Second Vajpayee ministry|Atal Bihari Vajpayee government]] in 1998–99.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
He was born on 24 June 1945 in Irumbedu village in Madurantakam taluk of [[Chengalpattu]] district in [[Tamil Nadu]]. He served the erstwhile Post & Telegraph Department between 1963 and 1987. During this period, he was sent on deputation to the Army for five years up to 1974. As an army officer he took part in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]]. He was a recipient of the K Sainik Seva Medal from the president of India for meritorious service in the [[Indian Army]]. Even while in the government service, he held key positions in the National Federation of Postal Union and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Employees Association Co-ordination Committee, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, besides launching the Dalit People's Front in 1980. <br />
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== Career ==<br />
After the formation of the Pattali Makkal Katchi in 1989, he joined the party and became its general secretary. In the 1998 [[Lok Sabha]] election, he was elected from the [[Chidambaram (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chidambaram]] (reserved) constituency when the PMK contested the poll as part of the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]]-led coalition. In March 1998, he was made Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare with independent charge in the Vajpayee Cabinet. However, in August 1999, he quit the PMK as he was denied the party nomination to contest again from the constituency. Later, he joined the AIADMK and was elected as an AIADMK MP from [[Tiruchirappalli (Lok Sabha constituency)]] in the 2001 by-election. <br />
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== Death ==<br />
He died on 6 May 2020, aged 74, in [[Chennai]].<ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/former-union-minister-dalit-ezhilmalai-passes-away-at-74/article31515262.ece/ Former Union Minister Dalit Ezhilmalai passes away at 74]</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12tn12.htm Parliament of India]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080527051945/http://www.bjp.org/news/profile1.htm BJP - Short Bio (Archive)]<br />
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