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S. Daniel Raj

former Member of the Legislative Assembly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2022
Entity authorityQ7387438 ↗
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S. Daniel Raj was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress candidate from Srivaikuntam constituency in 1984, 1989 and 1991 elections.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “S. Daniel Raj” as former Member of the Legislative Assembly. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 1989, 1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Daniel, former and Member can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “S. Daniel Raj” 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.