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Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy or Vazhapadi K. Ramamoorthy (1940 – 22 October 2002) was an Indian trade unionist and politician.^[1]

Political career[edit]

He was an ardent follower of the late K Kamaraj and E. V. K. Sampath. He belonged to the Vanniyar community.^[2]^[3]

He served as the President of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee From 1989 to 1994, he was the Youth Congress President of Salem, Tamil Nadu.

Ramamurthy was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha six times and was defeated twice, in 1996 and 1999. He was involved with the International Labour Organization and served as minister of state for Labour with independent charge in the Congress government led by P. V. Narasimha Rao for a brief period in 1991. He quit his ministerial post on the Cauvery issue.^[4]

He was president of the TNCC for six years before being replaced in 1996 when he formed the Tamil Nadu unit of the Tiwari Congress. Ramamurthy went back to the Congress but left that party again to form Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC).^[5] He was part of NDA and become Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas. With the creation of the TRC, he subsequently announced that it would have an alliance with AIADMK in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.^[5] A few days later, J. Jayalalitha announced that TRC was entering the AIADMK-led front, although she denied having engineered the split in the Congress Party.^[6] In January 2002, after eight years, Ramamurthy merged TRC with Congress.^[7]

Ramamurthy was associated with various trade unions and workers' organizations, serving as honorary president of INTUC Tamil Nadu, Founder-President of the International Institute for Non-aligned Studies, Vice-President of INTUC, Tamil Nadu, and founding member and president of Indian National Rural Labour Federation INRLF, a labour union formed for unorganized rural employees.

Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress[edit]

Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress was a regional political party in Tamil Nadu, India. TRC was formed when Vazhapadi Ramamurthy split from the Indian National Congress. TRC merged with Congress in 2002.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Electoral records[edit]

He was Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Lok Sabha as an Indian National Congress candidate from Dharmapuri constituency in 1977 election and from Krishnagiri constituency in 1980 1984, 1989 and 1991 elections.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14] He was elected from Krishnagiri constituency as an Indian National Congress (Indira) candidate in 1980 election.^[15] He was elected from Salem constituency as an Independent candidate in 1998 election.^[16]

Parliament Committees[edit]

1977-79 Member, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table; Member, Business Advisory Committee; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour; Deputy Chief Whip, Congress Parliamentary Party, (Indira) [C.P.P.(I)]

1980 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings; Member, Business Advisory Committee; Member, Committee on Privileges; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour

1985-87 Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings;Committee on Public Undertakings

1986-89 Member, Committee on Public Accounts; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labor

1990 Member, Committee of Privileges, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labor and Welfare^[17]

Personal life[edit]

His wife, R Kalaimani, was a retired teacher, and they shared two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Vazhapadi Rama Suganthan, is an AICC member, INRLF National General Secretary and Chairman of Rajiv Gandhi Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy Charitable trust, while his younger son, Vazhapadi R Karnan, is President of INRLF Tamil Nadu state.

Ramamurthy died in Chennai on 27 October 2002.^[18]

References[edit]

↑ PTI (27 October 2002). "Former Union minister Vazhapadi dead". The Times of India.
↑ P. Radhakrishnan (2002). India, the Perfidies of Power: A Social Critique. ISBN 9788179360033.
↑ Muthiah, S. (2008). Madras, Chennai: A 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India, Volume 1. ISBN 9788183794688.
↑ http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_TOI&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOIBG/2010/11/16&ID=Ar01100 ^{[bare URL]}
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Asian Recorder. K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press. 1998.
↑ Business Standard. No Hitch In Seat Sharing Talks, Says Jayalalitha
↑ TRC merges with Congress
↑ Former Union minister Vazhapadi dead
↑ Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) quit the National Democratic Alliance
↑ TRC chief returns Congress property^{[dead link]}
↑ Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha
↑ Volume I, 1984 Indian general election, 8th Lok Sabha
↑ Volume I, 1989 Indian general election, 9th Lok Sabha
↑ Volume I, 1991 Indian general election, 10th Lok Sabha
↑ Volume I, 1980 Indian general election, 7th Lok Sabha
↑ Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha
↑ http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12TN16.htm ^{[bare URL]}
↑ "Ramamurthy laid to rest at Vazhapadi". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 30 October 2002. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012.

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 '''Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy''' or '''Vazhapadi K. Ramamoorthy''' (1940 – 22 October 2002) was an Indian trade unionist and politician.<ref>{{cite news |last1=PTI |title=Former Union minister Vazhapadi dead|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Former-Union-minister-Vazhapadi-dead/articleshow/26487766.cms |work=The Times of India |date=27 October 2002 |language=en}}</ref>
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 He was an ardent follower of the late [[K Kamaraj]] and [[E. V. K. Sampath]]. He belonged to the [[Vanniyar]] community.<ref>{{cite book|author= P. Radhakrishnan| title=India, the Perfidies of Power: A Social Critique| year=2002| isbn=9788179360033|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DTmVbBoYb0YC&pg=PA15}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Madras, Chennai: A 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India, Volume 1|isbn = 9788183794688|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbR_LLkqdI8C&pg=PA382|last1 = Muthiah|first1 = S.|year = 2008}}</ref>
-He served as the [[Tamil Nadu Congress Committee]] president. From 1969 to 1971, he was the president of Youth Congress, Distt. [[Salem, Tamil Nadu]]. In 1989 he was appointed as the President, Pradesh Congress Committee (Indira), Tamil Nadu by [[Rajiv Gandhi]].
+He served as the President of [[Tamil Nadu Congress Committee]] From 1989 to 1994, he was the Youth Congress President of [[Salem, Tamil Nadu]].
+Ramamurthy was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha six times and was defeated twice, in 1996 and 1999. He was involved with the [[International Labour Organization]] and served as minister of state for Labour with independent charge in the Congress government led by [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] for a brief period in 1991. He quit his ministerial post on the Cauvery issue.<ref>http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_TOI&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOIBG/2010/11/16&ID=Ar01100 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>
-Ramamurthy was elected as a member of the Lok Sabha six times and was defeated twice, in 1996 and 1999. He was involved with the [[International Labour Organization]] and served as minister of state for Labour with independent charge in the Congress government led by [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] for a brief period in 1991. He quit his ministerial post on the Cauvery issue.<ref>http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_TOI&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOIBG/2010/11/16&ID=Ar01100</ref>
+He was president of the TNCC for six years before being replaced in 1996 when he formed the [[Tamil Nadu]] unit of the Tiwari Congress. Ramamurthy went back to the Congress but left that party again to form [[Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress]] (TRC).<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IxtAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press}}</ref> He was part of [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|NDA]] and become [[Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas]]. With the creation of the TRC, he subsequently announced that it would have an alliance with [[AIADMK]] in the upcoming [[Lok Sabha]] election.<ref name=a/> A few days later, [[J. Jayalalitha]] announced that TRC was entering the AIADMK-led front, although she denied having engineered the split in the Congress Party.<ref>''Business Standard''. ''[https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/no-hitch-in-seat-sharing-talks-says-jayalalitha-197122501094_1.html No Hitch In Seat Sharing Talks, Says Jayalalitha]''</ref> In January 2002, after eight years, Ramamurthy merged TRC with Congress.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160818043128/http://www.sify.com/itihaas/fullstory.php?id=13421329 TRC merges with Congress]''</ref>
-He was president of the TNCC for six years before being replaced in 1996 when he formed the [[Tamil Nadu]] unit of the Tiwari Congress. Ramamurthy went back to the Congress but left that party again to form [[Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress]] (TRC).<ref name=a>{{cite book|title=Asian Recorder|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3IxtAAAAMAAJ|year=1998|publisher=K. K. Thomas at Recorder Press}}</ref> He was part of [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|NDA]] and become Union Minister of Petroleum. With the creation of the TRC, he subsequently announced that it would have an alliance with [[AIADMK]] in the upcoming [[Lok Sabha]] election.<ref name=a/> A few days later, [[J. Jayalalitha]] announced that TNMC was entering the AIADMK-led front, although she denied having engineered the split in the Congress Party.<ref>''Business Standard''. ''[https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/no-hitch-in-seat-sharing-talks-says-jayalalitha-197122501094_1.html No Hitch In Seat Sharing Talks, Says Jayalalitha]''</ref> In January 2002, after eight years, Ramamurthy merged TRC with Congress.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20160818043128/http://www.sify.com/itihaas/fullstory.php?id=13421329 TRC merges with Congress]''</ref>
+Ramamurthy was associated with various trade unions and workers' organizations, serving as honorary president of INTUC Tamil Nadu, Founder-President of the International Institute for Non-aligned Studies, Vice-President of INTUC, Tamil Nadu, and founding member and president of Indian National Rural Labour Federation INRLF, a labour union formed for unorganized rural employees.
-Ramamurthy was associated with various trade unions and workers' organizations, serving as honorary president of INTUC Tamil Nadu, Founder-President of the International Institute for Non-aligned Studies, Vice-President of INTUC, Tamil Nadu, and founding member and president of Indian National Rural Labour Federation  INRLF, a labour union formed for unorganized rural employees.
+== Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress==
+'''Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress''' was a regional [[political party]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]. TRC was formed when Vazhapadi Ramamurthy split from the [[Indian National Congress]]. TRC merged with Congress in 2002.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/Former-Union-minister-Vazhapadi-dead/articleshow/26487766.cms Former Union minister Vazhapadi dead]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041116085003/http://sify.com/itihaas/fullstory.php?id=13418954 Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress (TRC) quit the National Democratic Alliance]</ref><ref>[http://www.thehindu.com/2001/12/03/stories/2001120300840400.htm TRC chief returns Congress property]{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
 ==Electoral records==
-He was [[Parliament of India|Member of Parliament]] elected from [[Tamil Nadu]]. He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate from [[Dharmapuri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dharmapuri constituency]] in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1977|1977]] election and from [[Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnagiri constituency]] in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1984|1984]], [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1989|1989]] and [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1991|1991]] elections.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf Volume I, 1984 Indian general election, 8th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf Volume I, 1989 Indian general election, 9th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf Volume I, 1991 Indian general election, 10th Lok Sabha]</ref> He was elected from [[Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnagiri constituency]] as an [[Indian National Congress (Indira)]] candidate in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1980|1980]] election.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf Volume I, 1980 Indian general election, 7th Lok Sabha]</ref> He was elected from [[Salem (Lok Sabha constituency)|Salem constituency]] as an Independent candidate in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1998|1998]] election.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha]</ref>
+He was [[Parliament of India|Member of Parliament]] elected from [[Tamil Nadu]]. He was elected to the [[Lok Sabha]] as an [[Indian National Congress]] candidate from [[Dharmapuri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Dharmapuri constituency]] in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1977|1977]] election and from [[Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnagiri constituency]] in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1980|1980]] [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1984|1984]], [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1989|1989]] and [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1991|1991]] elections.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_I_LS_77.pdf Volume I, 1977 Indian general election, 6th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1984/Vol_I_LS_84.pdf Volume I, 1984 Indian general election, 8th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1989/Vol_I_LS_89.pdf Volume I, 1989 Indian general election, 9th Lok Sabha]</ref><ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1991/VOL_I_91.pdf Volume I, 1991 Indian general election, 10th Lok Sabha]</ref> He was elected from [[Krishnagiri (Lok Sabha constituency)|Krishnagiri constituency]] as an [[Indian National Congress (Indira)]] candidate in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1980|1980]] election.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf Volume I, 1980 Indian general election, 7th Lok Sabha]</ref> He was elected from [[Salem (Lok Sabha constituency)|Salem constituency]] as an Independent candidate in [[Indian general election in Tamil Nadu, 1998|1998]] election.<ref>[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1998/Vol_I_LS_98.pdf Volume I, 1998 Indian general election, 12th Lok Sabha]</ref>
 ==Parliament Committees==
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 Member, Committee on Public Undertakings; Member, Business Advisory Committee; Member, Committee on Privileges; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labour
--87 Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings;[[Committee_on_Public_Undertakings#Chairpersons_of_the_committee_till_date]]
+-87 Chairman, Committee on Public Undertakings;[[Committee on Public Undertakings]]
 -89 Member, Committee on Public Accounts; Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labor
-Member, Committee of Privileges, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labor and Welfare <ref name="parliamentofindia.nic.in">[http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12TN16.htm]</ref>
+Member, Committee of Privileges, Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Labor and Welfare<ref name="parliamentofindia.nic.in">http://www.parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok12/biodata/12TN16.htm {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>
 ==Personal life==
-His wife, R Kalaimani, was a retired teacher, and they shared two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Vazhapadi Rama Suganthan, is an AICC member, INRLF National General Secretary and Chairman of Rajiv Gandhi Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy Charitable trust, while his younger son, Vazhapadi R Karnan, is President of INRLF Tamil Nadu state. {{Use Indian English|date=June 2015}}
+His wife, R Kalaimani, was a retired teacher, and they shared two sons and a daughter. His eldest son, Vazhapadi Rama Suganthan, is an AICC member, INRLF National General Secretary and Chairman of Rajiv Gandhi Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy Charitable trust, while his younger son, Vazhapadi R Karnan, is President of INRLF Tamil Nadu state.
-{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}}
 Ramamurthy died in Chennai on 27 October 2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2002/10/30/stories/2002103005970400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105051245/http://www.hindu.com/2002/10/30/stories/2002103005970400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012|title=Ramamurthy laid to rest at Vazhapadi |date=30 October 2002|work=[[The Hindu]]|location=Chennai, India}}</ref>
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 ==References==
-{{Reflist|2}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==Further reading==
-* [http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971222/politics.html  Express India - TN Cong crippled as Ramamurthy allies with AIADMK-led front]
+* [http://www.expressindia.com/ie/daily/19971222/politics.html  Express India – TN Cong crippled as Ramamurthy allies with AIADMK-led front]
 {{Energy Ministries and Departments of India}}
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 [[Category:Union Ministers from Tamil Nadu]]
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+[[Category:India MPs 1977–1979]]
-[[Category:7th Lok Sabha members]]
+[[Category:India MPs 1980–1984]]
-[[Category:8th Lok Sabha members]]
+[[Category:India MPs 1984–1989]]
-[[Category:9th Lok Sabha members]]
+[[Category:India MPs 1989–1991]]
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+[[Category:India MPs 1991–1996]]
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+[[Category:Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi]]