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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Durai Murugan
| image =
| caption =
| office = [[List of leaders of the house in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Leader of the House, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
| governor = [[Banwarilal Purohit]] [[R. N. Ravi]]
| 1blankname = Chief Minister
| 1namedata = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| term_start = 11 May 2021
| predecessor = [[O. Panneerselvam]]
| successor =
| office1 = [[Tamil Nadu Council of Ministers|Cabinet Minister]] [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]
| governor1 = [[Banwarilal Purohit]] [[R. N. Ravi]]
| term_start1 = 8 May 2025
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| minister1 = * Law
| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| governor2 = [[Banwarilal Purohit]] [[R. N. Ravi]]
| term_start2 = 7 May 2021
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 =
| successor2 =
| minister2 = * Irrigation Projects including small Irrigation
* Legislative Assembly
* Governor and Ministry
* Elections and Passports
* Water Resources
| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| governor3 = [[Banwarilal Purohit]] [[R. N. Ravi]]
| term_start3 = 7 May 2021
| term_end3 = 8 May 2025
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 = [[S. Regupathy]]
| minister3 = * Minerals and Mines
| 1blankname3 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata3 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| minister4 = [[Department of Law (Tamil Nadu)|Law]]
| term4 = 12 July 2009 – 15 May 2011
| 1blankname4 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata4 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| term5 = 13 May 2006 — 12 July 2009
| 1blankname5 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata5 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| minister5 = [[Tamil Nadu Public Works Department|Public Works Department]]
| term6 = 13 May 1996 — 13 May 2001
| 1blankname6 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata6 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| minister6 = [[Tamil Nadu Public Works Department|Public Works Department]]
| term7 = 27 January 1989 — 30 January 1991
| 1blankname7 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata7 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| minister7 = [[Tamil Nadu Public Works Department|Public Works Department]]
| office8 = 4th General Secretary of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| term_start8 = 9 September 2020
| term_end8 =
| president8 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| predecessor8 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| successor8 =
| office9 = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|Treasurer of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| term9 = 28 August 2018 – 3 September 2020
| 1blankname9 = General Secretary
| 1namedata9 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| president9 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| predecessor9 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| successor9 = [[T. R. Baalu]]
| office10 = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|Principal Secretary of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| term10 = 9 January 2015 – 27 August 2018
| president10 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| 1blankname10 = General Secretary
| 1namedata10 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| predecessor10 = [[Arcot N. Veeraswami]]
| successor10 = [[K. N. Nehru]]
| term11 = 2 June 2003 – 26 December 2008
| president11 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| 1blankname11 = General Secretary
| 1namedata11 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| predecessor11 = ''position established''
| successor11 = [[Arcot N. Veeraswami]]
| office12 = Deputy General Secretary of [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| term_start12 = 27 December 2008
| term_end12 = 8 January 2015
| president12 = [[M. Karunanidhi]]
| predecessor12 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| successor12 = [[I. Periyasamy]]
| 1blankname12 = General Secretary
| 1namedata12 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| office13 = [[Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start13 = 4 June 2016
| term_end13 = 3 May 2021
| 1blankname13 = [[Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Leader of Opposition]]
| 1namedata13 = [[M. K. Stalin]]
| predecessor13 = [[Azhagappuram Mohan Raj]]
| successor13 = [[O. Pannerselvam]]
| term_start14 = 24 May 2001
| term_end14 = 14 April 2006
| 1blankname14 = [[Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Leader of Opposition]]
| 1namedata14 = [[K. Anbazhagan]]
| predecessor14 =
| successor14 = [[O. Pannerselvam]]
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{{Infobox officeholder|embed=yes
| office1 = [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 10 May 1996
| term_end1 =
| predecessor1 = K. M. Kalaiselvi
| successor1 =
| constituency1 = [[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi]]
| term2 = 6 February 1989 — 30 January 1991
| predecessor2 = G. Ragupathi
| successor2 = K. M. Kalaiselvi
| constituency2 = [[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi]]
| term3 = 30 June 1977 —15 November 1984
| predecessor3 = K. A. Wahab
| successor3 = M. Kadirvelu
| constituency3 = [[Ranipet Assembly constituency|Ranipet]]
| term4 = 15 March 1971 — 31 January 1976
| predecessor4 = G. Natarajan
| successor4 = M. A. Jayavelu
| constituency4 = [[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi]]
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1938|7|1}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.oneindia.com/politicians/duraimurugan-1574.html |title=Durai Murugan Biography}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Gudiyatham]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in Gudiyatham, [[Vellore District]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]])
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| spouse = Santhakumari
| children = [[Kathir Anand]] (only son)
| website =
| footnotes =
| source = http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/12thAssembly/profiles/036.htm
}}

'''Durai Murugan''' (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian politician and lawyer from [[Tamil Nadu]]. He is the Minister for Water Resources under the [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]. He is the [[general secretary]] of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] since 9 September 2020. He graduated in [[Master of Arts|MA]] and [[Bachelor of Laws|BL]] and is an [[advocate]] by profession. He is a very close confidant to former [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] Supremo [[M. Karunanidhi]] and his son [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] President [[M. K. Stalin]]. He also worked as Treasurer, Principal Secretary and Deputy General secretary of the DMK party. MGR was his guardian during while studying in the 2nd and 3rd years of BA, both years of MA and Law.

Durai Murugan was first elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971 and has been elected ten times since. He was elected from the [[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi constituency]] in 2006. After the 2006 assembly elections, Durai Murugan was appointed Minister for Public Works in the Government of Tamil Nadu.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/mar/25tn.htm |title=DMK cautious as Tamaraikkani row takes new turn |work=Rediff |date=25 March 1999 |access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref>

He was divested of the Public Works Department portfolio on 13 July 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/13/stories/2009071354090100.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125160027/http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/13/stories/2009071354090100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 January 2013 |work=[[The Hindu]] |title=Durai Murugan divested of PWD portfolio |date=13 July 2009}}</ref>

He was re-elected from the Katpadi constituency in the [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|elections of 2016]].<ref>{{cite web |title=15th Assembly Members |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/15thassembly/members/001_050.html |access-date=2017-04-26}}</ref>

He currently resides in [[Kotturpuram]], [[Chennai]].{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} He was born in 1938 in [[Gudiyatham]], [[North Arcot]], [[Madras Presidency]] (now [[Vellore District]], [[Tamil Nadu]]) to Duraisamy and Thavasi Ammal. He belongs to the [[Vanniyar]] community, a numerically-large caste found throughout [[Tondaimandalam|Northern Tamil Nadu]]. He is married to Santhakumari and has one son, [[Kathir Anand]], who has served as the [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|MP]] from [[Vellore Lok Sabha constituency|Vellore]] since [[2019 Indian general election|2019]].

== Elections contested and results ==
=== Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections ===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Year
! Constituency
! colspan=2|Party
! Votes
! %
! Opponent
! colspan=2|Opponent Party
! Opponent Votes
! %
! Result
! Margin
! %
|-
! [[1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1971]]
| [[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi]]
| {{Party name with color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|rowspan=12}}
| 37,487
| 57.79
| Dhandayuthapani
| {{Party name with color|Indian National Congress (Organisation)}}
| 20,919
| 32.25
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 16,568
| 25.54
|-
! [[1977 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1977]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Ranipet Assembly constituency|Ranipet]]
| 31,940
| 43.53
| Wahab K.A.
| {{Party name with color|Independent|shortname=IND}}
| 16,643
| 22.68
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 15,297
| 20.85
|-
! [[1980 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1980]]
| 44,318
| 53.70
| Renu. N
| {{Party name with color|AIADMK|rowspan=5}}
| 37,064
| 44.91
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 7,254
| 8.79
|-
! [[1984 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1984]]
| rowspan="9"|[[Katpadi Assembly constituency|Katpadi]]
| 36,839
| 39.62
| [[G. Ragupathi]]
| 53,077
| 57.08
| {{no2|Lost}}
| -16,238
| -17.46
|-
! [[1989 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1989]]
| 43,181
| 43.41
| Margabandu R
| 23,344
| 23.47
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 19,837
| 19.94
|-
! [[1991 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1991]]
| 36,866
| 33.02
| [[K. M. Kalaiselvi|K.M. Kalaiselvi]]
| 63,005
| 56.43
| {{no2|Lost}}
| -26,139
| -23.41
|-
! [[1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1996]]
| 75,439
| 61.20
| Pandurangan.K
| 34,432
| 27.93
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 41,007
| 33.27
|-
! [[2001 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|2001]]
| 64,187
| 49.47
| Natarajan A.K.
| {{Party name with color|Pattali Makkal Katchi}}
| 56,185
| 43.30
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 8,002
| 6.17
|-
! [[2006 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|2006]]
| 86,824
| 57.45
| Narayanan.B
| {{Party name with color|AIADMK|rowspan=4}}
| 51,677
| 34.19
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 35,147
| 23.26
|-
! [[2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|2011]]
| 75,064
| 49.55
| rowspan="2"|Appu S.R.K
| 72,091
| 47.59
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 2,973
| 1.96
|-
! [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|2016]]
| 90,534
| 50.90
| 66,588
| 37.44
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 23,946
| 13.46
|-
! [[2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|2021]]
| 85,140
| 46.18
| V Ramu
| 84,394
| 45.78
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 746
| 0.40
|-
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Government of Tamil Nadu}}
{{Council of Ministers of Tamil Nadu}}
{{Members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (2011–2016)|state=collapsed}}
{{Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
{{Dravidian politics}}

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