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|name =V. P. Singaravelu<br />
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'''V. P. Singaravelu''' (3 June 1959 – 7 December 2011) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Valparai (State Assembly Constituency)|Valparai constituency]] in the [[1996 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|1996 elections]] as a candidate of the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) party.<br />
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Singaravelu joined the DMK in his college days at Madurai Law College. He quit the party to join [[Vaiko]]'s [[Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]], where he remained a member for some time before being convinced by then DMK [[Coimbatore district]] secretary, [[Pongalur Palanisamy]], to rejoin the DMK before the 1996 Tamil Nadu assembly polls. Palanisamy considered him to be a charismatic leader with strong backing from the [[dalit]] community in [[Valparai]].{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}<br />
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Singaravelu won the Valparai constituency in the 1996 elections as a DMK candidate. The constituency was [[Reservation in India|reserved]] for candidates from the [[Scheduled Castes]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Election Commission of India |page=7 |url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-TN96.pdf |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 1996 |accessdate=2017-05-06}}</ref> Electoral pacts for the [[2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2001 election]] saw the DMK to prefer that the [[Puthiya Tamizhagam]] party contest it rather than Singaravelu.<ref>{{cite news |title=Old DMK faces to fight new ones in AIADMK |first=G. |last=Satyamurthy |date=17 April 2001 |url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/04/17/stories/0417223d.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2017-05-18}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><br />
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Singaravelu acted as the legal advisor of a plantation workers union and championed fair wages and amenities for the workers.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}<br />
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He died on 7 December 2011 and was survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}<br />
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