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|office = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]<br />
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|term_end = 2016<br />
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'''M. K. Ashok''' is an Indian politician and was a member of the [[Fourteenth Assembly of Tamil Nadu|14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Velachery (State Assembly Constituency)|Velachery constituency]] in [[Chennai District]]. He represented the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] party.<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=2017-04-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320103427/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/member_list.pdf |archivedate=20 March 2012 }}</ref><br />
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The [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|elections of 2016]] resulted in his constituency being won by [[Vagai Chanderasekar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=15th Assembly Members |publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/15thassembly/members/001_050.html |accessdate=2017-04-26}}</ref> Ashok was one of thirteen AIADMK MLAs in the Greater Chennai area who were deselected by the party, apparently in an attempt to thwart a potential anti-incumbency backlash from the electorate following the [[2015 South Indian floods|recent flooding]]. It was felt that fresh faces would put some distance between the past and the present.<ref>{{cite news |work=Deccan Chronicle |title=MLAs in flood-hit areas denied tickets |first=C. S. |last=Kotteswaran |date=5 April 2016 |url=http://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/politics/050416/mlas-in-flood-hit-areas-denied-tickets.html |accessdate=2017-05-05}}</ref><br />
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On 22 June 2015, Ashok, his wife and a relative were injured in a car accident at the village of [[Pudusukkampatti]], near [[Melur]], [[Madurai]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-Nadu-MLA-injured-in-road-accident-near-Madurai/articleshow/47781271.cms|title = Tamil Nadu MLA injured in road accident near Madurai &#124; Chennai News - Times of India}}</ref> The three, along with a driver who escaped uninjured, were on their way to attend a funeral in [[Paramakudi]] when the accident occurred.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}<br />
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