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| Born | 1951-10-06
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| Political party | Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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K. Thangavel (6 October 1951 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian politician who served as member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016.
Life
Thangavel was born on 6 October 1951 in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu.[1] He kept living in Tiruppur.[2]
He started his political career as a forefront leader of Centre of Indian Trade Unions in Tiruppur. He led a 127 day long strike of labor demanding dearness allowance in 1984.Template:Citation needed From 2006 to 2011 he was a local politician in Tiruppur.[1]
In 2011 was elected as member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Tiruppur South constituency. He represented the Communist Party of India (Marxist) party.[3] He served until 2016.[4] Thangavel was admitted to a local hospital in Coimbatore in late August 2020. He died from COVID-19 on 13 September 2020, twenty three days short of his 69th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Archived copy. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ Profile. Government of Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011. Govt. of Tamil Nadu.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Former MLA dies of COVID-19. The Hindu(13 September 2020).
External links
- Official Blog. MLA Office.