Charubala Tondaiman

Rani Sarubala Rajammani Ayi Sahib (born 7 October 1958), popularly known as Mayor Sarubala Tondaiman , is an Indian politician and member of the royal house of Pudukkottai. She was elected for mayor of Tiruchirappalli City Corporation two times (2001,2005) and wife of R. Rajagopala Tondaiman, the present head of the royal house of Pudukkottai she Was President of Trichy Unit Tamil Maanila Congress. She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on 15 September 2016.

Early life

Sarubala Tondaiman was born on 7 October 1958 to Subramaniam, a Superintendent Engineer of the Tamil Nadu Highways Department and his wife Sarojini, granddaughter of late Sri Bhaskara Tondaimsn IFS from Tirunelveli sister of Ramasundaram IFS former public Secretary and Sister in law of Archana Ramasundram IFS, Sarubala Tondaiman has a masters in arts and philosophy.

Politics

From her early days, Sarubala has been an active member of the Indian National Congress. She served as the mayor of Tiruchirappalli from 2001[1] to 2009.[2] During the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she stood from the Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency and lost to P. Kumar consecutively of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) by 4,335 votes and 1,00,300 votes respectively .[3]

Sarubala is currently the Joint Convenor of the Movement for the Restoration of Vedic Wisdom. She is also the Secretary of ACME Matriculation School, Tiruchirappalli and the Pudukkottai Mannar Educational and Charitable Trust and Mannar Arts & Science College, Tiruchirappalli.

She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on 15 September 2016.[4]

Notes
  1. Ganesan, S. (29 October 2001). "Charubala faces uphill task in Tiruchi". The Hindu.
  2. "S. Sujatha elected as Trichy mayor". Hindustan Times. 6 June 2009.
  3. "25-Constituency-wise detailed results" (PDF). Election Commission of India. p. 133. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2014.
  4. "Sarubala joins AIADMK". The Hindu. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
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