Who is DMK's Dayanidhi Maran who won Chennai Central Lok Sabha constituency? Know your MP

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the dominance of the Maran family continued in the Chennai Central constituency of Tamil Nadu. Dayanidhi Maran has won this election by a margin of more than 2 lakh votes. This area is considered DMK's stronghold. Vinoj Selvam was fielded here on behalf of BJP. BJP has not been able to do anything better in this constituency as in the state as a whole. Here BJP got only 1 lakh 69 thousand 159 votes. Whereas DMK got 4 lakh 13 thousand 848 votes. Dayanidhi Maran graduated from Loyola College with a degree in Economics. After completing his education, he studied management at Harvard Business School. Dayanidhi is married to Priya, daughter of Ramesh Rangarajan, a big businessman and director of Priya Kasthuri and Sons. According to the affidavit filed with the Election Commission, he has assets totaling over Rs 11 crore. A criminal case has also been registered against them. A hereditary politician Dayanidhi Maran, this name is one of the strongest leaders of DMK. He is the grandson of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and former president of DMK M. Karunanidhi. His father Murasoli Maran was also one of the prominent leaders of the party and a Union Minister. His elder brother Kalanithi Maran is the founder of the Sun Group. The 52-year-old Maran is a hereditary political figure. He won the 2004 Lok Sabha elections and became an MP for the first time. His political journey started from here. Political journey: After becoming a first-time MP, he got a ministerial post in the centre. In 2004, Manmohan Singh became the Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the government. During his tenure, he launched the “One Rupee One India” scheme. This made it easy to make calls across India at just one rupee per minute. After that, in 2009, he contested and won the Madhya Chennai Lok Sabha seat. This time also he got the responsibility of Union Minister. He became the textile minister in the Manmohan government. In the 2014 general elections, he failed to save his traditional constituency (Chennai South) and lost the election. After this, he made a strong comeback in 2019 with a big hit. He carried his winning chariot forward and won in 2024 as well. Chennai South was once a Congress stronghold. After 1991, DMK and AIADMK showed the way out to Congress. DMK has won 8 times and AIADMK 3 times. Chennai South Parliamentary Constituency consists of six assembly constituencies namely Virugambakkam, Saidappettai, Thiagarayanagar and Mylapore. Velachery and Chojinganallur. AIADMK won the last assembly elections by a landslide.