M. K. Alagiri

MK Alagiri ( Karunanidhi Alagiri Muthuvel, also: Azhagiri, Tamil: .. மு க அழகிரி [ aɻəɡiri ]; born January 30, 1951 in Chennai) is an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam regional party (DMK). From 2009 to 2013 he was Minister of Indian total chemicals and fertilizers in the Cabinet Minister Manmohan Singh II Alagiri is a son of DMK leader M. Karunanidhi. He cherished long ambitions to succeed his father. After Karunanidhi but Alagiris brother MK Stalin had appointed as his successor, Alagiri had a falling out with his father and was expelled in 2014 from the DMK.

Biography

MK Alagiri was born on 30 January 1951 in Chennai ( Madras). He is the son of longtime DMK leader and former Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi and his wife Dayaluammal. After he had taken his bachelor's degree, he devoted himself to politics and moved to Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu, where he drew as organizing secretary, the fortunes of the DMK in the southern districts of the state. Although long held no political posts, Alagiri has built up as a power base in the south of Tamil Nadu.

2003 MK Alagiri was arrested on charges that he had given the murder of the DMK politician and former Federal Minister of State T. Kiruttinan in order. In the subsequent court proceedings Alagiri but was acquitted.

MK Alagiri and MK Stalin, his brother compete for the succession of her father M. Karunanidhi as DMK leader. Stalin, 2006-2011 Minister in the Cabinet of his father and 2009-2011 Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, is considered as the most promising successor Karunanidhis. After the newspaper Dinakaran had published a survey in 2007, according to the Alagiri was less popular than Stalin, lighted applied followers Alagiris the Dinakaran editorial in Madurai. Three employees of the newspaper perished in the flames died. 2010 placed Alagiri revive the succession dispute again when he summoned in an interview that he would not accept anyone except Karunanidhi as DMK leader. In January 2013, Karunanidhi finally named but Stalin as his political heir.

In the Indian parliamentary elections in 2009, MK Alagiri was as DMK candidate in the constituency of Madurai, was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the total Indian Parliament. After the electoral victory of the United Progressive Alliance, the Congress Party -led coalition on which the DMK is involved, Alagiri was appointed as minister for chemicals and fertilizers in the new government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. As Minister Alagiri remained the most hours of television per question in the Lok Sabha, there are adequately controlled neither of the two working languages ​​of Hindi and English and the parliamentary rules did not allow him to speak in his mother tongue Tamil. In March 2013, the DMK withdrew in protest against the Indian attitude to a UN resolution on Sri Lankan conflict from the government back. Alagiri joined then, as the other DMK members of the cabinet, resigned from his ministerial post.

After the family feud to the leadership position in the DMK had further deteriorated, MK Alagiri had a falling out in January 2014, his father Karunanidhi. Then Alagiri was suspended from the DMK. As a basic lack of party discipline has been specified.

Personal

MK Alagiri has been married to his wife Gandhi Alagiri since 1972. He has two daughters and a son, Dayanidhi Alagiri, who works as a film producer.

Alagiri wrote his name in Latin letters initially Azhagiri, the spelling after he joined the federal policy changed but Alagiri, since his name was mispronounced in northern India.