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M. N. R. Balan

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ115492336 ↗
Source-derived summary

M.N.R. Balan is an Indian politician who served as Deputy Speaker of 14th Puducherry Assembly and Member of 14th Puducherry Assembly from Ozhukarai Assembly constituency. He is the son-in law of R. V. Janakiraman.

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The public source identifies “M. N. R. Balan” as indian politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Balan, Indian and politician.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current 34-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Balan, Indian and politician providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q115492336. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “M. N. R. Balan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.