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S. P. Sarguna Pandian

Member of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ7387747 ↗
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S. P. Sarguna Pandian (c. 1941 – 13 August 2016) was an Indian politician who was the deputy General Secretary of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu. She was also Social Welfare Minister in the assembly formed after the 1996 election.

She was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar constituency as a DMK candidate in the 1989 and 1996 elections. She died on 13 August 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “S. P. Sarguna Pandian” 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.