T.R. Baalu
| T. R. Baalu | |
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| டி. ஆர். பாலு | |
| Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping | |
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In office 2004-2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Constituency | Chennai South |
| Minister of Environment and Forests | |
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In office 1999-2003 |
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| Prime Minister | Atal Bihari Vajpayee |
| Constituency | Chennai South |
| Minister of State for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Non-Conventional Energy Sources | |
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In office 1996-1998 |
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| Prime Minister |
H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral |
| Constituency | Chennai South |
| MP of Lok Sabha for Sriperumbudur | |
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In office 2009-2014 |
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| MP of Lok Sabha for Chennai South | |
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In office 1996-2009 |
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for Tamil Nadu | |
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In office 1986-1992 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
15 June 1941 Thalikottai, Thiruvarur district, Madras Presidency ,British India |
| Political party | DMK |
| Spouse(s) | Renuka Devi Baalu (m. 10 Sep 1970) T.R.B. Porkodi (m. 19 Oct 1970) |
| Children | T. R. B. Raj Kumar, T. R. B. Rajaa, Selva Kumar Baalu and Three Daughters |
| Residence | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| As of 8 February, 2006 Source: [] |
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Thalikottai Rajuthevar Baalu known as T. R. Baalu (born 15 June 1941 in Thalikottai, Thiruvarur District in Tamil Nadu) is an Indian Tamil politician. T. R. Baalu did his B.Sc. from New College, Chennai in Madras University and diploma in drafting engineering drawings from Central polytechnic Chennai. He was a member of Lok Sabha of India and has been elected five times since 1996. He is an important leader of the DMK party and is known for political loyalty having been in the party since 1957.
In his political career Baalu went to jail over 20 times for participating in demonstrations and agitations for public cause. He came to political limelight when he was jailed for one year under MISA in 1976 for protesting against Emergency clamped in the country. Baalu was first elected to Parliament as a member of Rajya Sabha in 1986. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1996, 1998 and 2004 from Chennai South constituency and from Sriperumbudur constituency in 2009. He was Minister of State in the Ministry Petroleum and Natural Gas, also held additional charge of the then Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources and Cabinet Minister of Environment and Forests from 1999 to December 2003 and as Minister of Shipping and Road Transport and Highways from 2004 to 2009. T.R. Baalu is the Leader of DMK Parliamentary Party and is the only DMK member in the 30 member Joint Parliamentary Committee that probes the 2G Spectrum scam, where three members from DMK, namely A. Raja, Dayanidhi Maran and Kanimozhi are accused. Baalu is one of the prominent leaders to work towards the implementation of Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project while he was the minister of Shipping.
Baalu was centre of a controversy involving illicit allocation of gas to his family owned King Chemicals and King Hi Power in 2004. In 2010, there were widespread protests by the local farmers against the Baalu's family owned industrial alcohol distillery in Vadaseri, a village in Thanjavur district against the establishment of it would reduce the ground water supply in the region. Internal rivalry in the DMK party emerged between Baalu and S.S. Palanimanickam, the MP from Thanjavur constituency and the district secretary of the DMK in Thanjavur, in 2012, when Baalu initiated a survey for railway lines in Thanjavur district.
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