Chennai: The opposition AIADMK on Wednesday nominated its sitting MP M Thambidurai for the biennial election to the Rajya Sabha on March 16, while allotting a seat to its ally, the PMK.
Following a decision by the party, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami informed that Thambidurai would be renominated.
The party has allotted one seat to PMK (Anbumani faction) which is part of the AIADMK-led alliance in the state, the release said.
Thambi Durai held the post of Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker twice and that of Union Minister for Law, Justice, Company Affairs, and Surface Transport in the National Democratic Alliance regime headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee during March 1998-April 1999.
He first entered Parliament in 1984 when he was elected from the Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency, defeating Parvati Krishnan, a prominent Communist leader.
He served the Lok Sabha for five terms and entered the Rajya Sabha in April 2020. During 2001-02, he was Education Minister in the AIADMK Government in the State and remained a member of the Assembly till 2009.
