Lok Sabha 2019: Chennai (Central) candidate Dayanidhi Maran (DMK)
Posted on: 05/Apr/2019 11:47:50 AM
Dayanidhi Murasoli Maran (born 5 December 1966) is an Indian politician and one of the prominent members of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, filed his nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Central Chennai constituency.
He was elected twice as a Member of Parliament to Lok Sabha from Chennai Central constituency during the 2004 general elections and 2009 general elections.
He is the son of former Union Minister Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and former DMK president M. Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Indian billionaire Kalanidhi Maran, the founder, chairman and managing director of Sun Group.
He received initial education in Tamil Nadu and graduated in Economics from Loyola College in Chennai. He also attended the "Owner /President Management Programme" (OPM) from Harvard Business School (USA).
About Chennai (Central) constituency :
The Parliamentary Constituency of Chennai (Central) is one of the 39 Lok Sabha Constituencies of Tamil Nadu. 13,32,135 is the total electorate count in the Chennai (Central) Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 12).
Out of these 6,60,447 number of electorates are males and the remaining 6,71,334 are belong to the female category and 354 are belong to Third Gender as the Election commission of India 2019 reports suggest.
