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{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = V.Vaithilingam
| birth_name = Vaithilingam
| image = Vaithilingam.jpg
| caption = V. Vaithilingam at 27th Flower, Vegetable and Fruit Show, [[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]]
| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|10|5}}
| birth_place =[[Cuddalore]], [[Madras State]], [[India]]
| residence =[[Pondicherry (city)|Pondicherry]], [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]
| office = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| term_start = 23 May 2019
| term_end =
| majority = 1,97,025 (24.91%)
| predecessor = [[R. Radhakrishnan]]
| constituency = [[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)|Puducherry]]
| office1 = [[Chief Minister of Puducherry]]
| term_start1 = 4 July 1991
| term_end1 = 13 May 1996
| predecessor1 = M. D. R. Ramachandran
| successor1 = [[R. V. Janakiraman]]
| term_start2 = 4 September 2008
| term_end2 = 15 May 2011
| predecessor2 = [[N. Rangaswamy]]
| successor2 = [[N. Rangaswamy]]
| office3 = [[Speaker of Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3 = 12 June 2016
| term_end3 = 21 March 2019
| deputy3 = V.P. Sivakolundu
| constituency3 = [[Kamaraj Nagar (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Kamaraj Nagar]]

| office4 = Member of the [[Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency4 = [[Kamaraj Nagar (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Kamaraj Nagar]]
| term_start4 = 2011
| predecessor4 = ''New constituency''
| term_end4 = 2019
| successor4 = A. Johnkumar

| constituency5 = [[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]]
| term_start5 = 1985
| predecessor5 = R. Subbaraya Gounder
| term_end5 = 2011
| successor5 = L. Periyasamy

| party =[[Indian National Congress]]
| spouse = Sasikala
| children = 1 son and 1 daughter
|alma_mater=[[Loyola College, Chennai]]
}}
'''V. Vaithilingam''' (born 5 October 1950) is an Indian politician, belonging to [[Indian National Congress]], who currently represents [[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)|Puducherry]] in the [[Lok Sabha]]. He is former [[Chief Minister]] of [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. He held the position as 11th Chief Minister of Puducherry from 1991 to 1996 and 14th Chief Minister of Puducherry again from 2008 to 2011. He is a senior legislator serving eight consecutive terms.

He is known for the family politics in Puducherry. His paternal grandfather late Vaithilingam Reddiar was the Mayor of Nettappakkam commune during the French rule in Puducherry and his father [[V. Venkatasubha Reddiar]] was also a Chief Minister of Puducherry. He headed the Puducherry Government from 1991 to 1996 and the Congress Legislative party from 1991 to 2000. His priorities as Chief Minister was to minimize the budget deficit, increase private sector participation in public transport, improve health care system. He became Chief Minister at the age of 40.

== Early life ==

He was born at Cuddalore and was raised in his native home Madukarai, [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]]. After completing his schooling, he went to [[Loyola College, Chennai|Loyola College]] in Chennai and later went to Madukkarai to take care of his family farms. In 1969, Vaithilingam married Miss Sasikala. From an early age, he developed exceptional leadership skills, an example of which was his role as the Chairman of Land Development Bank of Puducherry State.

== Political career ==

In 1980, at the age of 30, he ran for the Legislative Assembly and lost with a narrow margin of 90 odd votes. In 1985, Vaithilingam won to become Public Works and Power Minister. He became familiar among the Congress Party members. From 1991 to 1996 he served as the Chief minister of Pondicherry, under his administration, Pondicherry saw a drastic growth in the industrial and education sector. He advocated smaller government and greater participation of private sector. Vaithilingam also benefited from the management of the economy and the liberalization policies followed by Prime Minister
[[P. V. Narasimha Rao]]. In 1996 elections [[Indian National Congress]] became the single largest party, but their alliance lost the elections and he was appointed as the leader of opposition till 1999. In 2001 he won from Nettappakkam constituency but could not able to become chief minister because Vaithilingam was charged with an attempt to corrupt a fellow legislature and lost his congress leadership and N. rangaswamy was chosen as chief minister he served as an M.L.A in his cabinet till 2006. In 2006 he served as the minister of agriculture and industries till 2008. He was made the Chief minister in 2008 and he served till 2011. He became leader of opposition in 2011 election and he became speaker of the house in 2016 and resigned on 2019 after becoming member of parliament, Puducherry

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections V. Vaithilingam was chosen to represent [[Indian National Congress]] party and he defeated [[All India N.R. Congress]] candidate Dr. Narayanasamy Kesavan (see [[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)]]).

==Electoral history==
*'''[[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]]'''
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Year !! Post !! Constituency !! Party !! Opponent !! Opposition Party !! Result
|-
| 1980 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]]|| [[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] || [[Indian National Congress|INC]] || R. Subaraya Gounder || [[Janata Party|JNP]] || Lost
|-
| 1985 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]]|| [[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] || [[Indian National Congress|INC]] || P. Ramamurthy || [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] || Won
|-
| 1990 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]]|| [[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] || [[Indian National Congress|INC]] || N. Devadass || [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] || Won
|-
| 1991 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] || [[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| R. Subraya Gounder || [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|DMK]] || Won
|-
| 1996 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] ||[[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| V. Muthunarayanan || Independent || Won
|-
| 2001 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] ||[[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| K. Dhanraju || [[Pattali Makkal Katchi|PMK]] || Won
|-
| 2006 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] ||[[Nettapakkam (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Nettapakkam]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| V. Muthunarayanan ||[[Puducherry Munnetra Congress|PMC]] || Won
|-
| 2011|| [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] ||[[Kamaraj Nagar (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Kamaraj Nagar]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| Nara Kalainathan || [[Communist Party of India|CPI]] || Won
|-
| 2016 || [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|M.L.A]] ||[[Kamaraj Nagar (Union Territory Assembly constituency)|Kamaraj Nagar]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| P. Ganesan || [[All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam|AIADMK]] || Won
|}

*'''[[Member of Parliament]]'''
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;"
! Year !! Post !! Constituency !! Party !! Opponent !! Opposition Party !! Result
|-
| 2019 || [[Member of Parliament (India)|M.P]] ||[[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)|Puducherry]] ||[[Indian National Congress|INC]]|| Dr. Narayanasamy Kesavan || [[All India N.R. Congress]] || Won
|}

== Comeback ==
Vaithilingam was charged with an attempt to corrupt a fellow legislator.<ref>[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?203315 "The Defection Bazaar"], (''Outlook India''), 2 April 1997</ref> Although he was acquitted on all charges, Vaithilingam lost his leadership of the Congress Legislative party in 2000. He was for the sixth time elected to the legislature and served as Industries and Power Minister in N.Rangaswamy cabinet in 2006.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121021173333/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2008-09-04/india/27901371_1_office-and-secrecy-vaithilingam-ministers "Vaithilingam sworn in as Puducherry Chief Minister"], IST, PTI (''Times of India''), 4 September 2008.</ref>

==Positions Held==
{{S-start}}
{{S-off}}
{{s-bef|before = D. Ramachandran}}
{{s-ttl|title = [[Chief Minister of Puducherry]]|years =4 July 1991–13 May 1996}}
{{s-aft|after=[[R.V. Janakiraman]]}}
|-
{{s-bef|before = [[N. Rangaswamy]]}}
{{s-ttl|title = [[Chief Minister of Puducherry]]|years = 4 September 2008–15 May 2011}}
{{s-aft|after=[[N. Rangaswamy]]}}
|-
{{s-bef|before = V.M.C. Ganapathy}}
{{s-ttl|title = [[Opposition (parliamentary)|Leader of Opposition]] of [[Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Puducherry]]|years = 26 May 1996–21 March 2000}}
{{s-aft|after=[[R.V. Janakiraman]]}}
|-
{{s-bef|before = V. Sabapathy}}
{{s-ttl|title = [[List of speakers of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Speaker]] of [[Puducherry Legislative Assembly|Puducherry]]|years = 10 June 2016–21 Mar. 2019}}
{{s-aft|after=V.P. Sivakolundhu}}
{{S-end}}
{{Chief ministers of Puducherry}}

==References==
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==External links==
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