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Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy
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Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy or Vazhapadi K. Ramamoorthy (1940 – 22 October 2002) was an Indian trade unionist and politician.
He was an ardent follower of the late K Kamaraj and E. V. K. Sampath. He belonged to the Vanniyar community.
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.
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). 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. 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. In January 2002, after eight years, Ramamurthy merged TRC with Congress.
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 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.
He was Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu.
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