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'''M. Gunasekaran''' (born 3 June 1962) is an Indian Tamil politician and has twice been elected as a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] of [[Tamil Nadu]] from the [[Manamadurai (State Assembly Constituency)|Manamadurai constituency]].

== Personal life ==
Gunasekaran was born in [[Nelmadur]] on 3 June 1962. He has a BA degree and is married with three children.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thiru. M. Gunasekaran (AIADMK) |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu |accessdate=2017-05-03 |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/members/profile/187.html}}</ref>

Gunasekaran lists agriculture as his occupation. A study comparing sworn election affidavits for members of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] who had won their seats in the [[2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2006 elections]] and were standing as candidates in [[2011 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|those of 2011]] revealed that Gunasekaran had recorded the biggest percentage increase in assets. The increase was 3396 per cent.<ref>{{cite news |title=sitting MLAs double wealth in 5 years |date=12 September 2011 |publisher=Association for Democratic Reforms |url=http://adrindia.org/media/adr-in-news/sitting-mlas-double-wealth-5-years |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref>

In June 2014, Gunasekaran was hospitalised, with police saying his condition was "highly critical", after being attacked by several people while talking with a group of friends in [[Manamadurai]]. Police said that the attack happened after a heated discussion with one of the attackers regarding property rights.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Hindu |title=Manamadurai AIADMK MLA attacked |date=7 June 2014 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/manamadurai-aiadmk-mla-attacked/article6091920.ece |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=The Times of India |title=AIADMK MLA critical after attack |date=7 June 2014 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/AIADMK-MLA-critical-after-attack/articleshow/36176664.cms |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref>

== Politics ==
Gunasekaran was first elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly as an [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (AIADMK) candidate from Manamadurai constituency in the 2006 elections. The constituency is reserved for candidates from the [[Scheduled Castes]].<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_TN_2006.pdf 2006 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India]</ref> He was particularly active in asking questions in the house, raising 16,057 queries during the [[Thirteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu|13th Assembly]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Jayalalithaa-attended-assembly-only-10-days/articleshow/7967014.cms |title=Jayalalithaa attended assembly only 10 days |first=Mahalingam |last=Ponnusamy |date=13 April 2011 |work=The Times of India |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref> and was re-elected from the same constituency at the next election, in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011 |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |accessdate=2017-05-02 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320103427/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf |archivedate=20 March 2012 }}</ref>

The [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|elections of 2016]] resulted in his constituency being won by the AIADMK's [[S. Mariappankennady]],<ref>{{cite web |title=15th Assembly Members |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/15thassembly/members/151_200.html |accessdate=2017-05-02}}</ref> whom the party had determined should replace Gunasekaran.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Hindu |title=AIADMK wins 5 of 8 seats in Ramnad, Sivaganga |date=20 May 2016 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/aiadmk-wins-5-of-8-seats-in-ramnad-sivaganga/article8623530.ece |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref>

In January 2017, Gunasekaran announced that he could not work with the current AIADMK leadership, whom he said wanted to encourage [[Political family|dynastic politics]]. He had been a strong supporter of [[Jayalalithaa]], the AIADMK leader and [[Chief Minister (India)|Chief Minister]] who had recently died, and preferred to support [[Deepa Jayakumar]], Jayalalithaa's niece, in her bid to head the party. He said that he had been a supporter of AIADMK since 1987 and that his decision to favour Jayakumar's aspirations was backed by many thousands of AIADMK people in [[Sivaganga district]], in which the Manamadurai constituency is situated. He felt the new leadership was being unfair in its allocation of party positions in the district.<ref>{{cite news |title=Veteran AIADMK leader Gunasekaran switches over to Deepa Peravai |work=The Times of India |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/veteran-aiadmk-leader-gunasekaran-switches-over-to-deepa-peravai/articleshow/56743701.cms |date=24 January 2017 |accessdate=2017-05-03}}</ref>

== References ==
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