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Former freedom fighter and Puducherry minister D Mudaliar dies

by IBNS 24 Jun 2015, 10:04 am

Puducherry, June 24 (IBNS) Freedom fighter and former Puducherry Minister Dhakshinamurthy Mudaliar died on Tuesday night. He was 91.

Reports said Mudaliar's end came at his native T R Pattinam in Karaikal district.

He was keeping an ill health for the past few days.

Mudaliar, who had  participated in the Independence struggle later became a in  Congress legislator when he won his first assembly polls in 1963. Later, he became the the Health Minister in Chief Minister Edward Goubert's cabinet.

He is survived by two daughters.