T. T. V. Dhinakaran

T. T. V. Dhinakaran (born on 13 December 1963) is an Indian politician and the Member of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar. In Past he was the Treasurer of AIADMK Party and served as the Member of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.He was expelled from the AIADMK on August 2017. He is the nephew of V. K. Sasikala. He won the highly anticipated RK Nagar by-election in December 2017 .On 15 March 2018 Dhinakaran launched his political party, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam.

Dhinakaran was a Member of Lok Sabha, representing Periyakulam from 1999 to 2004, and was runner-up in the seat as 2004 general election when he was defeated by J. M. Aaron Rashid. In 2017 R.K Nagar by-election, he defeated AIADMK's candidate E. Madhusudhanan with a huge margin of votes as an Independent candidate. He assumed office of MLA on 29 December 2017.

Dinakaran was reinducted into the AIADMK and appointed deputy general secretary on 15 February 2017, hours before V. K. Sasikala left to surrender herself in the Bengaluru court to serve the jail term in a disproportionate assets case. He was expelled from the party on August,2017 and launched his own party Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) on 15 March 2018.

On 17 April 2017, Delhi police registered a case against Dhinakaran regarding an allegation of attempting to bribe the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the AIADMK's election symbol. It is claimed that a middle-man named Sukesh Chandrasekhar, who was raided and arrested in Delhi and was found with 13 million, which was allegedly meant as a bribe for the ECI in exchange for the symbol. Dinakaran has been charged with conspiracy and corruption in the case. In a recent development, the Tis Hazari Special Court granted him bail on the ground that the police had failed to identify the public official allegedly bribed, accepting the argument made by his lawyer Mr. Aman Lekhi.

T. T. V. Dhinakaran represented the Periyakulam Lok Sabha constituency in 1999, and was a Rajya Sabha member between 2004 and 2010. He is now Incumbent MLA of Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar, which fell vacant after the death of former Chief minister of Tamil Nadu J.Jayalalithaa.

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections

T. T. V. Dhinakaran is representing as MLA of Dr. Radhakrishnan Nagar from 2017 in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.

Lok Sabha Elections

Dhinakaran wonin 1999 and runner in 2004 Lok Sabha election.