Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar, known as Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, was a politician and the patriarch of Thevar community from the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
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31 Facts About Muthuramalinga Thevar
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Muthuramalinga Thevar was elected three times to the national Parliamentary Constituency.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar was born on 30 October 1908 in Pasumpon, Ramnad District.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar led a massive campaign in the villages, urging the people to defy it.
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In 1934, Muthuramalinga Thevar organised a convention at Abhiramam, which urged the authorities to repeal the CTA.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar again led agitations and awareness-raising campaigns against the Act.
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Infuriated by the attitude of the Justice Party government towards the CTA, Muthuramalinga Thevar concluded that the communities affected by the Act had to be mobilised by the Congress.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar contested the election to the Ramnad District Board from the Mudukulathur constituency, defeating his Justice Party opponent.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar was persuaded to withdraw his candidature and presented a motion nominating Kumarasamy as president.
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Ahead of the 1937 elections to the assembly of the Madras Presidency, Muthuramalinga Thevar enlisted youths from the Mukkulathor communities to work for the Congress.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar's activities created worries for the Justice Party government, which forbade him to travel outside of the Ramnad district and to make speeches in public.
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In February 1937, Muthuramalinga Thevar contested the assembly election himself, as a Congress candidate in the Ramanathapuram constituency.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar won a landslide victory with 11,942 votes against 6,057 for the Raja.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar formed and led the Pasumalai Mahalaskshmi Mill Workers' Union, the Meenakshi Mill Workers' Union and the Madura Knitting Company Labour Union.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar attended the 52nd annual session of the Indian National Congress, held in Tripuri in March 1939.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar, who was disillusioned by the official Congress leadership which had not revoked the CTA, joined the Forward Bloc.
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When Bose visited the state immediately after the formation of the Forward Bloc in 1939, it was Muthuramalinga Thevar who played the key role in arranging a rousing reception in Madurai on 6 September.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar had the support of Gandhi and Sardar Patel, but the majority of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee opposed him.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar interrupted the disputes and passed a motion re-electing Kamaraj as the TNCC President.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar contested from the Mudukulathur constituency, and was elected unopposed.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar became its president of its Tamil Nadu state unit, a position he would hold for the rest of his life.
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On 23 January 1949, in connection with birthday anniversary celebrations of Bose, Muthuramalinga Thevar announced that Bose was alive and that he had met him.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar contested the Aruppukottai constituency in the Lok Sabha election and the Mudukulathur constituency in the assembly election.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar cooperated with the communists in trying to form a non-Congress governing coalition.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar travelled to Burma for the second time in December 1955, taking part in political and religious activities organised by the All Burma Tamil Nadu Association.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar returned on 18 February 1956 and began to prepare for the erstwhile coming general election.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar won both seats, but this time he decided to vacate the assembly seat.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar was nominated for the 1962 Lok Sabha election but attended only one campaign meeting, which was attended by Rajaji.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar was re-elected, but due to health reasons he was unable to travel to the parliament in Delhi.
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In 1968 the Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar College was founded in Usilampatti by the then DMK-led state government.
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Muthuramalinga Thevar's biography was included in the high school textbooks in Tamil Nadu.
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