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M. C. A. Rethinasamy Thevar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ138660008 ↗
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M. C. A. Rethinasamy Thevar was an Indian politician and a former Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He hailed from Tirumangalam in Madurai district. He received his education at P. K. N. Higher Secondary School in Tirumangalam. He was a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). In the 1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, he contested from the Tirumangalam constituency as a Forward Bloc candidate and was elected as a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.

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This entry incorporates text from “M. C. A. Rethinasamy Thevar” 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.