O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar

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Omandur Ramasamy Reddiar was the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from March 23, 1947 to April 6, 1949.[1][2] He belonged to Viluppuram district in Tamil Nadu. He was nominated by K. Kamaraj for the CM position. When he showed signs of independence Kamaraj engineered his removal through a vote of no-confidence in the congress legislature party in 1949 and replaced him with P S Kumaraswamy Raja another ethnic telugu from southern Tamil Nadu (Rajapalayam). [3] Ramaswamy Reddiar was a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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  1. ^ List of Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu
  2. ^ The Hindu - The Government's first plane
  3. ^ Duncan B Forrestor, Kamraj: A study in percolation of style, Modern Asian studies, 4, I, 1970, PP. 43-61, Great Britain
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