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Former Puducherry minister VMC Sivakumar allegedly murdered

| | Jan 03, 2017, at 08:44 pm
Puducherry, Jan 3 (IBNS): VMC Sivakumar, a former Speaker from Union Territory of Puducherry was murdered by unknown assailants on Tuesday, according to media reports.

A former minister, Sivakumar was reportedly hacked to death by unidentified persons at Puducherry's Karaikal district, reported Times of India Chennai

Sivakumar, a former DMK strongman and independent legislator from Karaikal, had joined the AIADMK in the presence of late chief minsiter of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa in April 2016.

He was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2000.


 

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