K. Thangavel

K. Thangavel (6 October 1951 – 13 September 2020) was an Indian politician who served as member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016.

K.Thangavel
Personal details
Born(1951-10-06)6 October 1951
Died13 September 2020(2020-09-13) (aged 68)
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)

Life

Thangavel was born on 6 October 1951 in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu.[1] He kept living in Tiruppur.[2]

He started his political career as a forefront leader of Centre of Indian Trade Unions in Tiruppur. He led a 127 day long strike of labor demanding dearness allowance in 1984. From 2006 to 2011 he was a local politician in Tiruppur.[1]

In 2011 was elected as member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Tiruppur South constituency. He represented the Communist Party of India (Marxist) party.[3] He served until 2016.[4] Thangavel was admitted to a local hospital in Coimbatore in late August 2020. He died from COVID-19 on 13 September 2020, twenty three days short of his 69th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic in India.[4]

References
  1. "K. Thangavel, MLA Tiruppur, Tamilnadu : Hindustan Pages : Business Directory of India". Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  2. "Profile". Government of Tamil Nadu.
  3. "List of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011" (PDF). Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2012.
  4. "Former MLA dies of COVID-19". The Hindu. 13 September 2020. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020.


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