Rangarajan Kumaramangalam

Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
Tiruchirapalli(from 1998 to 2000)
Personal details
Born	12 May 1952
Died	23 August 2000 (aged 48); New Delhi
Political party	BJP (1997–2000)
Other political; affiliations	INC (1973–1995), IC(T) (1995-1997)
Spouse	Kitty Kumaramangalam
Children	Rangarajan Mohan Kumaramangalam Ruchira Kumaramangalam
Residence	Salem
Alma mater	Kirori Mal College

Phanindranath Rangarajan Kumaramangalam (12 May 1952 – 23 August 2000) was a prominent politician of the

P. V. Narasimha Rao government from July 1991 to December 1993 and as the Union Minister for Power in the Vajpayee Government from 1998 to 2000. He was the grandson of former Chief Minister of Madras, P. Subbarayan and the nephew of former Indian Chief of Army, General P. P. Kumaramangalam

.

Personal life

Rangarajan was born on 12 May 1952 in the Zamindari family of

Chief Minister of West Bengal, and of Biswanath Mukherjee, husband of the communist ideologue and parliamentarian Geeta Mukherjee

.

Politics

Ranga was deeply involved in student politics right from the earliest stages, as one of the founding members and the first president of the National Students Union of India (NSUI). It was no less a person than Prime Minister

Salem Lok Sabha constituency

.

P.V. Narasimha Rao appointed him Minister of State for Law, Justice and Company Affairs in July 1991. Despite his personal sense of loyalty to Narasimha Rao, Ranga was unable to support him in what was increasingly being seen as a corrupt Congress regime. In a letter to the President he raised several issues with regards to corruption allegedly perpetrated by the Prime Minister, based on documents he had in his possession and that formed the basis of the Vohra Committee report

. In this letter he asked the President to ask the Prime Minister to step down and face an investigation against the charges.

In late 1993, Rangarajan resigned as Cabinet Minister. In May 1995, Rangarajan resigned from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress and along with

Third Vajpayee Ministry

from 1999 until his death in 2000.