H V Hande | |
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Minister for Health, Tamil Nadu | |
In office 9 June 1980 – 21 October 1986 | |
Chief Minister | M. G. Ramachandran |
Preceded by | R. Soundararajan |
Succeeded by | P. U. Shanmugam |
1st Deputy General Secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | V. R. Nedunchezhiyan and R. M. Veerappan |
Personal details | |
Born | Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu | 28 November 1927
Occupation | Medical practitioner, politician |
H. V. Hande (born 28 November 1927) is an Indian medical practitioner and a politician. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Park Town constituency as a Swatantra Party candidate in the 1967 and 1971 elections.[1][2] He is known as 'ever genial Mangalorian' because of his ancestral roots in Mangalore.[3]
In the 1980 elections, Hande stood from the Anna Nagar constituency as a candidate of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and lost by a margin of 699 votes to M. Karunanidhi. He also contested in the 2006 elections from Anna Nagar as a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party[4] but could only garner 9000 votes. He was National Council member of Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004.[5]
He is also a writer having written books on Ramayana, Dr. Ambedkar and other topics.[6][7] He has opened Hande Hospitals in 1984 at Shenoy Nagar, Chennai.[8]
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