Durai Murugan (born 1 July 1938) is a Tamil Nadu politician and lawyer. He is the Minister for Water Resources under the government of M. K. Stalin since 2021. He is the general secretary of the DMK since 9 September 2020. He graduated in MA and BL and is an advocate by profession. He is a very close confidant to former DMK Supremo M. Karunanidhi and his son DMK President M. K. Stalin. He also worked as Treasurer,Principal Secretary and Deputy General secretary of the DMK party. MGR was his guardian during while studying in the 2nd and 3rd years of BA,both years of MA and Law.
Durai Murugan was first elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly in 1971 and has been elected ten times since. He was elected from the Katpadi constituency in 2006. After the 2006 assembly elections,Durai Murugan was appointed Minister for Public Works in the Government of Tamil Nadu.[citation needed][2]
He was divested of the Public Works Department portfolio on 13 July 2009.[3]
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