Napoleon (actor)
| Nepoleon Duraisamy | |
|---|---|
| Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment | |
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In office 13 June 2009 – 20 March 2013 |
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| Preceded by | manmohan singh |
| Succeeded by | Selja Kumari |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Kumaresan Duraisamy 2 December 1963 Tiruchirappalli, Madras State, India (now in Tamil Nadu, India) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | DMK, BJP from 2014 |
| Spouse(s) | Jayasudha Nepoleon |
| Children | Dhanoosh Nepoleon Gunal Nepoleon |
| Residence |
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| Education | St. Joseph's College, Trichy |
| Occupation | Film actor politician entrepreneur |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | actornapoleon |
Kumaresan Duraisamy (born 2 December 1963), better known by his stage name Napoleon, is a Tamil film actor, politician and the founder and chairman of the Jeevan Technologies. He was the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet. Earlier in life, he acted in nearly 100 movies in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam language and Kannada films.
Kumaresan Duraisamy, better known as Napoleon, was born on 2 December 1963—the fifth of six children. His family was occupied in agriculture. He graduated from St. Joseph's College, Trichy. His Father is Duraisamy and Mother Saraswathi Ammal
After college, he moved to Trichy and became enthused by the ideologies of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party. He joined the party in which his uncle K. N. Nehru was already a member and at that time the Public Welfare Minister of the state government.
Napoleon contested the State Assembly elections of 2001, winning the Villivakkam constituency contest and thereby becoming a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He lost his membership in the 2006 elections, when he contested from the Mylapore constituency and was defeated by actor S. Ve. Shekhar. Subsequently, Napoleon nurtured the Perambalur constituency in the hope of becoming a member of parliament for the DMK, and succeeded in the 2009 Lok Sabha election. He was then appointed Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment in Union government. Seen as a loyalist of Azhagiri, he was sidelined by DMK after the expulsion of the latter from the party in 2014. He joined the BJP in the presence of party President Amit Shah on 21 December 2014. He was made the party's state Vice-President on 26 November 2015.
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