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Place of Birth: Perambalur district, Tamil Nadu, India
About Andimuthu Raja
- Andimuthu Raja (born as Sathyaseelar on 26 October 1963) popularly known as A Raja is an Indian politician from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party.
- He was a member of the 15th Lok Sabha representing the Nilgiris constituency of Tamil Nadu and had been elected to house for four times since 1996.
- Raja is an advocate by profession and he did his masters from Government Law College in Tiruchirappalli.
- He is an important leader of the DMK party.
- Raja was born in Velur in Perambalur District in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Raja was first elected to Parliament as a member of Lok Sabha in 1996 from the Perambalur constituency and was reelected from the same constituency in 1999 and 2004 elections and from Nilgris constituency in 2009.
- He was Minister of State for Rural development from 1996 to 2000, Minister of State, Health and Family Welfare from September 2000 to May 2004 and a cabinet minister for Environment and Forests from May 2004 to May 2007.
- He became the cabinet minister for Communication and Information Technology from May 2007, following the resignation of Dayanidhi Maran.
- Raja was investigated in the 2G Spectrum case, along with two other members of the DMK, Dayanidhi Maran and Kanimozhi.
- All three were acquitted in 2017.
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