Dayanidhi Maran
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| Born | 5 December 1966 Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu |
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| Residence | Chennai | |
| Office | Member of Parliament | |
| Constituency | Chennai Central | |
| Political party | DMK | |
| Spouse | Priya Dayanidhi Maran | |
| Children | 1 son and 1 daughter | |
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As of September 22, 2006 |
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Dayanidhi Maran (born December 5, 1966, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India) is a member of parliament and also Minister of Communications and IT of Government of India, was elected to India’s 14th Lok Sabha from Madras Central constituency.
He is the son of deceased leader Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. His elder brother is Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network, the group that owns and operates the largest number of satellite television channels in southern India in four languages. He is a graduate in economics.
Contested as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) Party candidate to the 14th Lok Sabha from Central Chennai Constituency in Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu in Parliamentary Elections held in April – May 2004 and elected as a Member of Parliament by winning with a margin of over 1,34,000 votes and securing over 62% of the votes polled. Appointed as Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology w.e.f. 26.05.2004.
As of 2004, he was a millionaire having declared assets of 16 million Indian rupees (approx. 360,000 US dollars).
[edit] Controversy
Dayanidhi Maran has been accused of demanding the Tatas 33.33% shares from the Tata-Rupert Murdoch DTH project (Tata Sky) for the Sun Network. In reply, he has asked the news papers which have published the report to apologize and has gone to court seeking compensation of Rs. 1 crore for personality damage from Indian Express, Thina Mani and Jaya TV.
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