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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = P. K. Mookaiah Thevar<br />
| birth_name = Pappapatti Kattamuthu Ocha Thevar<br />
| birth_date = 4 April 1923<br />
| birth_place = Pappapatti, Usilampatti, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu<br />
| occupation = [[Politician]]<br />
| office = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Madras State Assembly]]<br />
| constituency = [[Periyakulam Assembly constituency|Periyakulam]]<br />
| term_start = 1952<br />
| term_end = 57<br />
| constituency1 = [[Usilampatti Assembly constituency|Usilampatti]]<br />
| term1 = 1957-1977<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|9|6|1923|4|4}}<br />
| party = [[All India Forward Bloc]]<br />
}}<br />
'''P. K. Mookiah Thevar''' (1923–1979) was an Indian politician.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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He was born to Kattamuthu Ocha Thevar and Sevenamal on 4 April 1923 in [[Pappapatti]] village, near [[Usilampatti]], [[Madurai]] district, India. He participated in many activities as a student leader. Later, he formed the [[Kallar (caste)|Kallar]] educational trust and took several steps designed for the upliftment of all backward classes community in southern [[Tamil Nadu]].He worked for the upliftment of downtrodden people and the vulnerable groups<br />
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== Political career ==<br />
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Later, he joined [[Forward Bloc]], an Indian National Political Party, formed by [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], under the guidance of [[Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar]].{{citation needed|date=February 2012}}<br />
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He was elected for the [[Periakulam]] Assembly constituency in 1952–57 as a Forward Bloc candidate. He also served as a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] in [[Usilampatti]] for four terms (1957–62, 1962–67, 1967–71, 1977–79).<br />
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In 1971 he matched the achievement of [[U. Muthuramalinga Thevar]] in winning both [[Usilampatti (State Assembly Constituency)|Assembly]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 March 2012 |archive-date=6 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101006131227/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Ramanathapuram (Lok Sabha constituency)|Parliament]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 March 2012 |archive-date=7 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007032449/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> elections simultaneously. His parliamentary constituency was that of [[Ramanathapuram]] district and his period of office as an MP ran from 1971 to 1977.<br />
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== Electoral records ==<br />
He was elected to the [[Tamil Nadu legislative assembly]] from [[Usilampatti (State Assembly Constituency)|Usilampatti constituency]] as an Independent candidate in [[1957 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1957 election]], and as a [[Forward Bloc]] candidate in [[1962 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1962]], [[1967 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1967]], [[1971 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1971]] and [[1977 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1977 elections]].<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Madras_1957.pdf 1957 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410002118/http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_Madras_1957.pdf |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Madras_1962.pdf 1962 Madras State Election Results, Election Commission of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410002150/http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_Madras_1962.pdf |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Madras%201967.pdf 1967 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410004729/http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20Report%20Madras%201967.pdf |date=10 April 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_TN_71.pdf 1971 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportTamil%20Nadu77.pdf 1977 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India]</ref><br />
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[[Category:All India Forward Bloc politicians]]<br />
[[Category:1923 births]]<br />
[[Category:1979 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:India MPs 1971–1977]]<br />
[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu]]<br />
[[Category:People from Madurai district]]<br />
[[Category:Madras MLAs 1957–1962]]<br />
[[Category:Madras MLAs 1962–1967]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil Nadu MLAs 1971–1976]]<br />
[[Category:Tamil Nadu MLAs 1977–1980]]</div>StevieBavin8727