Durai Murugan
Indian politician
Durai Murugan (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian politician and lawyer from Tamil Nadu. He was Minister for Water Resources under the Government of Tamil Nadu (2021-2026) and has held ministerial posts in previous governments led by the DMK. He is the general secretary of the DMK since 9 September 2020. He graduated in MA and BL and is an advocate by profession. He is a very close confidant to former DMK Supremo M. Karunanidhi and his son DMK President M. K. Stalin. He also worked as Treasurer, Principal Secretary and Deputy General secretary of the DMK party.
Durai Murugan was first elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971 and has been elected ten times since. He was elected from the Katpadi constituency in 2006. After the 2006 assembly elections, Durai Murugan was appointed Minister for Public Works in the Government of Tamil Nadu.
He was divested of the Public Works Department portfolio on 13 July 2009.
He was re-elected from the Katpadi constituency in the elections of 2016.
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