Dayanidhi Maran
From GovernIndia
Background
DMK leader Dayanidhi is the son of Late Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. He is also an amateur radio operator. Dayanidhi was appointed as the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology in 2004. During his tenure, Dayanidhi brought in investments well in excess of $30 bn for the IT sector alone and set the ball rolling for making India a chip manufacturing hub. He won the General Elections 2009 from Chennai Central constituency.