V. Narayanasamy

V. Narayanasamy
10th Chief Minister of Puducherry
In office 6 June 2016
Preceded by	N. Rangaswamy
Personal details
Born	30 May 1947 Pondicherry, Puducherry
Political party	Indian National Congress

V. Narayanasamy (born 30 May 1947) is an Indian National Congress politician who has served as Chief Minister of the south Indian Union Territory of Puducherry since June 2016. He previously served as Member of Parliament, representing Puducherry in the Lok Sabha. He served as a Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office in the Manmohan Singh government. In the 2014 general elections, he was defeated by the NDA candidate R. Radhakrishnan, who was backed by the ruling All India N.R. Congress. He is a member of the Congress Working Committee as well as All India Congress Committee's General Secretary.

V. Narayanasamy was born in Pondicherry, the son of Velu, a toddy tapper, and Iswary. He did his B.A. form Tagore Art College, Pondicherry, B.L. form Madras Law College, Chennai and M.L. from Annamalai University.

V. Narayanasamy served three tenure as Rajya Sabha MP and was member of Lok Sabha from Puducherry constituency from 2009 to 2014. He was minister of state in Prime Minister's office in Manmohan Singh's second government as well as minister of state. Parliamentary Affairs in the first UPA government.

In the 2014 general elections, he was defeated by the NDA candidate R.Radhakrishnan who was backed by the ruling All India N.R. Congress.

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