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{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1947)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = M. Thambidurai
|image = MThambidurai.jpg
|office = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha|Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
|constituency = [[List of Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu]]
|term_start = 3 April 2020
|office1 = [[Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha]]
|1blankname1 = Speaker
|1namedata1 = [[Sumitra Mahajan]]
|predecessor1 = [[Kariya Munda]]
| president1 = *[[Pranab Mukherjee]]
*[[Ram Nath Kovind]]
| 2blankname1 = [[Leader of the House in Lok Sabha|Leader of the House]]
| 2namedata1 = [[Narendra Modi]]
|successor1 = ''Vacant''
|term_start1 = 13 August 2014
|term_end1 = 25 May 2019
|1blankname2 = Speaker
|1namedata2 = [[Balram Jakhar]]
|predecessor2 = [[G. Lakshmanan]]
|successor2 = [[Shivraj Patil]]
|term_start2 = 22 January 1985
|term_end2 = 27 November 1989
| president2 = *[[Giani Zail Singh]]
*[[R. Venkataraman]]
| 2blankname2 = [[Leader of the House in Lok Sabha|Leader of the House]]
| 2namedata2 = [[Rajiv Gandhi]]
|office3 = [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Union Minister of Law, Justice]] & [[Ministry of Corporate Affairs (India)|Corporate Affairs]] and [[Ministry of Surface Transport|Minister of State for Surface Transport]]
|primeminister3= [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
|predecessor3 = [[Ramakant Khalap]]
|successor3 = [[Rangarajan Kumaramangalam]]
|term_start3 = 19 March 1998
|term_end3 = 8 April 1999
|office4 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
|term_start4 = 14 May 2009
|term_end4 = 22 May 2019
|constituency4= [[Karur Lok Sabha constituency|Karur, Tamil Nadu]]
|predecessor4 = [[K.C. Palanisamy (DMK politician)|K. C. Palanisamy]]
|successor4 = [[Jothimani|S. Jothimani]]
|term_start5 = 10 March 1998
|term_end5 = 26 April 1999
|constituency5= [[Karur Lok Sabha constituency|Karur, Tamil Nadu]]
| predecessor5= K. Natrayan
| successor5 = [[M. Chinnasamy]]
|term_start6 = 1989
|term_end6 = 1991
|constituency6= [[Karur Lok Sabha constituency|Karur, Tamil Nadu]]
|predecessor6 = A.R. Murugaiah
|successor6 = N. Murugesan
|term_start7 = 1984
|term_end7 = 1989
|constituency7= [[Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency|Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu]]
|predecessor7 = [[K. Arjunan]]
|successor7 = M. G. Sekhar
|office8 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]
|term_start8 = 18 May 2001
|term_end8 = 25 May 2009 |constituency8= [[Bargur Assembly constituency|Bargur]]
|predecessor8 = [[E. G. Sugavanam]]
|successor8 = K. R. K. Narasimhan
|term_start9 = 1977
|term_end9 = 1982
|constituency9= [[Erode Assembly constituency|Erode]]
|office11 = [[Third Jayalalithaa ministry|Minister for Education, Technical Education, Science and Technology, Sports and Youth Welfare, Archeology, Tamil Development and Tamil Culture, Indian Overseas, Refugees and Evacuees]], [[Government of Tamil Nadu]]
|1blankname11 = Chief Minister
|1namedata11 = [[J. Jayalalithaa]] [[O. Panneerselvam]] [[J. Jayalalithaa]]
|term_start11 = 16 May 2001
|term_end11 = 12 May 2006
| office12 = [[Ministry of propaganda|Propaganda Secretary]] of [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]
| term_start12= 28 August 2007
| term_end12 =
| 1blankname12= [[General Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|General Secretary]]
| 1namedata12 = {{ubl|[[J. Jayalalithaa]]|[[V. K. Sasikala]]|[[Edappadi K. Palaniswami]] }}
| predecessor12= Edappadi K. Palaniswami
| successor12 =
| office13 = [https://sansad.in/rs/about/panel-of-vice-chairmen Member of Panel of Vice Chairpersons (Rajya Sabha)]
| alongside13 = [[Dinesh Sharma (politician)]], [[Bhubaneswar Kalita]], [[S. Phangnon Konyak]], [[Rajani Ashokrao Patil]], [[Sasmit Patra]], [[Tiruchi Siva]], [[Sasmit Patra]]
| term_start13 = from
| term_end =
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|3|15|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Krishnagiri district|Sinthagampalli]], [[Madras Province]], [[British India]]
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (1972-present)
|otherparty = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (1965-1972)
|spouse = {{marriage|Banumathi Thambidurai|1986}}
|children = 2
|alma_mater = [[Madras Christian College]]
|residence = [[New Delhi|5, Tughlak Lane, New Delhi]]
}}
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'''Munisamy Thambidurai''' (born 15 March 1947) is an Indian politician from [[Tamil Nadu]] who served as the [[Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/M-Thambidurai-elected-deputy-speaker-of-Lok-Sabha/articleshow/40175416.cms | title=M Thambidurai elected deputy speaker of Lok Sabha | publisher=Times of India | date=13 August 2014 | accessdate=14 August 2014}}</ref> and leader of [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (AIADMK) in the [[Lok Sabha]], the lower house of the [[Indian Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Thambidurai-appointed-AIADMKs-parliamentary-party-leader/articleshow/35335779.cms | title=Thambidurai appointed AIADMK's parliamentary party leader | work=[[The Times of India]] | date=19 May 2014 | author=Julie Mariappan}}</ref> He had served as the Cabinet Minister of [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Law, Justice and Company Affairs]] and as the Minister of State of [[Ministry of Surface Transport|Surface Transport]] from March 1998 to April 1999. He had also served as the [[Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha]] from 1985 to 1989.<ref name="tham">{{cite web |url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3205 |title=Fifteenth Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile: Thambidurai, Dr. Munisamy |publisher=[[Lok Sabha]] |accessdate=31 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605054040/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/members/former_Biography.aspx?mpsno=3205 |archive-date=5 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Political career==
Thambidurai started his political career as a youth worker and student activist of the erstwhile united [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] in 1965 at the age of 18, when he was in the first year as a student of [[Madras Christian College]]. He participated in the anti-Hindi agitation of 1965 and courted arrest. He worked his way up in the Party as a hard working organizer, starting as a worker at the booth level for Municipal and Legislative Assembly polls in 1967 and 1971 for the DMK, and also as an [[Agitprop]] coordinator in universities and colleges. He was among the founding-members and first generation of the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]] in 1972 when the party split with [[M.G. Ramachandran]]. He became an [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] from [[Erode Assembly constituency|Erode]] in 1977, and was first elected as a [[Member of Parliament]] to the [[8th Lok Sabha]] in 1984 from [[Dharmapuri]] and was subsequently elected to the [[9th Lok Sabha|9th]], [[12th Lok Sabha|12th]], [[15th Lok Sabha|15th]] and [[16th Lok Sabha|16th]] Lok Sabha from [[Karur Lok Sabha constituency|Karur]]. He was also elected to the Tamil Nadu assembly in the 2001 and 2006 elections from [[Bargur Assembly constituency]]. He also served as minister of Education, Technical Education, Science and Technology, Sports and Youth Welfare, Archeology, Tamil Development and Tamil Culture, Indian Overseas, Refugees and Evacuees. He was in the portfolio during Jayalaithaa 2001 cabinet.

Thambidurai contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from [[Karur Lok Sabha constituency]] in Tamil Nadu and was subsequently elected as a member of the Indian Parliament. He had been serving as the leader of AIADMK in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He lost in the general elections in 2019 to [[Jothimani]].

==Elections Contested==
===Lok Sabha===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Year
! Constituency
! colspan="2"|Party
! Votes
! %
! Opponent
! colspan="2"|Opponent Party
! Opponent Votes
! %
! Result
! Margin
! %
|-
! [[1984 Indian general election|1984]]
| [[Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency|Dharmapuri]]
| {{Party name with color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|rowspan=7}}
| 3,33,427
| 63.33
| Parvathi Krishnan
| {{Party name with color|Communist Party of India}}
| 1,82,175
| 34.6
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 1,51,252
| 28.73
|-
! [[1989 Indian general election|1989]]
| rowspan="6"|[[Karur Lok Sabha constituency|Karur]]
| 4,84,492
| 65.6
| K. C. Palanisamy
| {{Party name with color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
| 2,45,741
| 33.27
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 2,38,751
| 32.33
|-
! [[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
| 2,41,556
| 33.08
| rowspan="2"|K. Natrayan
| {{Party name with color|Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar)|rowspan=2}}
| 4,09,830
| 56.12
| {{no2|Lost}}
| -1,68,274
| -23.04
|-
! [[1998 Indian general election|1998]]
| 3,27,480
| 50.39
| 2,83,807
| 43.67
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 43,673
| 6.72
|-
! [[2009 Indian general election|2009]]
| 3,80,542
| 46.21
| K. C. Palanisamy
| {{Party name with color|Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|rowspan=2}}
| 3,33,288
| 40.48
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 47,254
| 5.73
|-
! [[2014 Indian general election|2014]]
| 5,40,722
| 52.36
| M. Chinnasamy
| 3,45,475
| 33.45
| {{yes2|Won}}
| 1,95,247
| 18.91
|-
! [[2019 Indian general election|2019]]
| 2,75,151
| 25.06
| S. Jothimani
| {{Party name with color|Indian National Congress}}
| 6,95,697
| 63.36
| {{no2|Lost}}
| -4,20,546
| -38.3
|}

===Rajya Sabha===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Position
! colspan="2" | Party
! Constituency
! From
! To
! Tenure
|-
| [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]] (1st Term)
| {{Party name with color|All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam}}
| [[Tamil Nadu]]
| 3 April 2020
| 2 April 2026
| '''{{ayd|2020|4|3|2026|4|2}}'''
|}

===Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly===

==Personal life==
Dr.M.Thambidurai born in Sinthagampalli village of krishnagiri district [[Tamil Nadu]] belongs to a virakodi vellala Community which is a majority in some of the Districts of [[Tamil Nadu]]. He is member of the Trust of Adhiyamaan Educational and Research Institutions, Chennai; St.Peter's Institute of Higher Education and Research Chennai; Lakshmi Sarawathi Educational Trust, Chennai; Kovai Kalaimagal Educational Trust which is managed by his wife Dr. T. Bhanumathi. He has two daughters .<ref>{{cite news |title=Thambidurai agrees to provide access to lands |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/thambidurai-agrees-to-provide-access-to-lands/article4996793.ece |accessdate=13 January 2019 |agency=The hindu}}</ref><ref name="ugc">{{cite web |title=Report of the Expert Committee |url=https://www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/ecreportdu/stpeterintofhighereduchanni.pdf |website=UGC |accessdate=13 January 2019}}</ref>

== Nickname ==
M. Thamidurai also has a nickname, known to be, "Kriblomus", Thambidurai was known to be called this nickname as a kid by his brothers and he also was known to be a very large jokester. <ref>{{Citation |last=Momin |first=Noorjahan |title=The Political Economy of Elections and Media in Contemporary Times |date=2024-09-02 |work=Communities as Vote Banks |pages=191–202 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003538448-13 |access-date=2026-03-15 |place=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-003-53844-8}}</ref>

== References ==
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{{All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam }}
{{Dravidian politics}}
{{Council of Ministers of Tamil Nadu}}
{{8th Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu}}
{{9th Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu}}
{{12th Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu}}
{{15th Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu}}
{{16th LS members from Tamil Nadu |state=expanded}}
{{Deputy speakers of the Lok Sabha}}
{{Rajya Sabha members from Tamil Nadu}}

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