Chennai, May 28 (BPNS)

Former Union Minister for Health and Member of Parliament, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss will be the new president of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), the political arm of the powerful Vanniyar community. He replaces G.K. Mani who was the president of the party for the past twenty-five years.

A special executive committee meeting of the PMK held on Saturday elected Anbumani Ramadoss as the party president and a resolution to this effect was adopted at the party executive meeting at Tiruverkadu in Chennai.

Anbumani Ramadoss is the son of PMK founder leader and ideologue, Dr. Ramadoss.

The incumbent president is a medical doctor just like his father and has been active in politics at the grass-root level for the past twenty-five years. He is active in taking up issues and has grass-root connectivity with the party cadres and has toured extensively across the state.