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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1974)}}<br />
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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| office1 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly|Member]] of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| termstart1 = 2016<br />
| termend1 = 2021<br />
| office = [[Member of Legislative Assembly|Member]] of [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| constituency = [[Chengalpattu (state assembly constituency)|Chengalpattu constituency]]<br />
| constituency1 = [[Chengalpattu (state assembly constituency)|Chengalpattu constituency]]<br />
| termstart = 2021<br />
| party = [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1974|4|16}}<br />
| spouse = Madhusudhanan P<br />
| children = 1 Son & 1 Daughter<br />
| alma_mater = College of Nursing, Chengalpattu Medical College<br />
}}<br />
'''M. Varalakshmi''' (born 16 April 1974<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Fifteenth Assembly 2016|url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/15thassembly/members/whoswho-2016.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]|page=102}}</ref>) is an Indian politician and member of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]]. She was elected as the representative of the [[Chengalpattu (state assembly constituency)|Chengalpattu constituency]] in the [[2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election]] as a member of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Tamil Nadu General Legislative Election 2016|url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3473-tamil-nadu-general-legislative-election-2016/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref><br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
Varalakshmi is a resident of Appur village in the [[Kanchipuram district]] of [[Tamil Nadu]] and a diploma graduate of the Kanchipuram Government College of Nursing.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Varalakshmi.m|url=https://myneta.info/tamilnadu2016/candidate.php?candidate_id=1718|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=myneta.info|publisher=[[Association for Democratic Reforms]]}}</ref><br />
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== Political career ==<br />
Varalakshmi was the representative as the head of the Appur Panchayat between 2006 and 2016.<ref name=":1" /><br />
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In the 2016 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, she was nominated to contest as the candidate of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the Chengalpattu state assembly constituency in the Kanchipuram district. Her primary opponent in the election was R. Kamalakkannan who was the candidate of the [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]]. The election resulted in Varalakshmi emerging as the winning candidate with a margin of over 27,000 votes and polling at 45.11% of the votes cast against 34.58% of the votes cast in favor of Kamalakkannan.<ref name=":2" /><br />
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==Electoral performance ==<br />
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[[Category:1974 births]]<br />
[[Category:Living people]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil Nadu MLAs 2016–2021]]<br />
[[Category:People from Chengalpattu district]]<br />
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