K.Thangavel
Personal details
Born(1951-10-06)6 October 1951
Died13 September 2020(2020-09-13) (aged 68)
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

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. 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. 1 2 "K. Thangavel, MLA Tiruppur, Tamilnadu : Hindustan Pages : Business Directory of India". Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Profile". Government of Tamil Nadu.
  3. ↑ "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011" (PDF). Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Former MLA dies of COVID-19". The Hindu. 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020.


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