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Rangarajan Kumaramangalam was born on 12 May, 1952, is an Indian politician (1952–2000). Discover Rangarajan Kumaramangalam's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Born 12 May 1952
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Date of death 23 August, 2000
Died Place New Delhi
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1925

His grandfather Paramasiva Subbarayan was the Chief Minister (Premier) of the then Madras presidency from 1925 to 1930 and a Cabinet Minister under later Governments.

His uncle, General P.P. Kumaramangalam was a veteran of the Second World War and a former Chief of Army Staff.

Rangarajan's father Mohan Kumaramangalam was an important theorist and organiser of the undivided Communist Party of India and later switched to Indian National Congress influenced by the socialist policies of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and served as Union Cabinet Minister for Steel & Mines in her cabinet.

His mother Kalyani Mukherjee was the niece of Ajoy Mukherjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, and of Biswanath Mukherjee, husband of the communist ideologue and parliamentarian Geeta Mukherjee.

Ranga was deeply involved in student politics right from the earliest stages, as one of the founding members and the first president of the National Students Union of India (NSUI).

It was no less a person than Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whose great personal favourite he was, who called him to take up this post after going through due process.

1952

Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam (12 May 1952 – 23 August 2000) was a prominent politician of the Indian National Congress and later the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from the Salem constituency from 1984 to 1996 and Tiruchirapalli constituency from 1998 to 2000.

Rangarajan was born on 12 May 1952 in the Zamindari family of Kumaramangalam, in Tiruchengode Taluk, Namakkal District.

1973

By 1973, he had also been elected a member of the All India Congress Committee.

1977

In 1977, on obtaining a degree from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, he moved to Madras to practice in labour law.

1980

When the Congress was re-elected in 1980, Rangarajan was asked by his very dear friend, soon-to-be-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to play an active role in politics.

1984

He contested and won the 1984 elections from Salem Lok Sabha constituency.

1991

He served as the Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in the P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000.

He was the grandson of former Chief Minister of Madras, P. Subbarayan and the nephew of former Indian Chief of Army, General P. P. Kumaramangalam.

P.V. Narasimha Rao appointed him Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in July 1991.

Despite his personal sense of loyalty to Narasimha Rao, Ranga was unable to support him in what was increasingly being seen as a corrupt Congress regime.

In a letter to the President he raised several issues with regards to corruption allegedly perpetrated by the Prime Minister, based on documents he had in his possession and that formed the basis of the Vohra Committee report.

In this letter he asked the President to ask the Prime Minister to step down and face an investigation against the charges.

1993

In late 1993, Rangarajan resigned as Cabinet Minister.

1995

In May 1995, Rangarajan resigned from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress and along with Arjun Singh, N.D. Tiwari, Sheila Dikshit and others, founded the Congress(T).

1996

However, Rangarajan lost his seat in the 1996 Parliamentary elections during which his new party suffered a crushing defeat.

1997

In December 1997, Rangarajan joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

1998

He won from the Tiruchirapalli Lok Sabha constituency in 1998 and 1999 and became one of the torch-bearers of the BJP in Tamil Nadu.

He served with distinction as the Union Minister for Power and Parliamentary Affairs, holding additional charge of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, and Mines, in the Second Vajpayee Ministry from 1998 to 1999 and in the Third Vajpayee Ministry from 1999 until his death in 2000.

2000

Rangarajan died on 23 August 2000 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at the age of 48 as a result of acute myeloid leukaemia (blood cancer).

At the time of his death, he was the Power Minister in the then A. B. Vajpayee ministry.

He was cremated with full state honours on the same day.