GK Vasan
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Background
GK Vasan is the son of late Congress leader GK Moopanar who later formed his own political outfit in Tamil Nadu known as the Tamil Mannila Congress. After the demise of Moopanar, the party unanimously elected Vasan as its leader. After leading the party for some time, he merged his party with the Indian National Congress in the presence of party chief Sonia Gandhi in Madurai. Sonia appointed him a Secretary of the party at the meeting itself. Now Vasan is the Honourable Minister of State of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation and Ministry of Labour and Employment holding Independent Charge of the ministries.