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Tamil Nadu Personal details Born (1931-08-19)August 19, 1931
Sunderaperumal Kovil,Kabisthalam,Thanjavur District. Died August
30, 2001(2001-08-30) (aged 70) Chennai, India Political party
Indian National Congress Spouse(s) Kasthuri Moopanar Children
Usha Rani, G.K. Vasan Residence Kabisthalam, Thanjavur District
Religion Hindu  G.K. Moopanar (1931–2001) was a senior Indian
National Congress leader, a veteran Parliamentarian and a noted
philanthropist. He was an All India Congress Committee general
secretary from 1980 to 1988. Moopanar was a close associate of
Congress leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, K Kamaraj.  He
was a very powerful Congress leader who was known to have turned
down high-ranking cabinet positions multiple times. He was once
offered the Defense Cabinet Minister position by Indira Gandhi
and he refused to take it. Like Kamaraj, Moopanar was known as
the "King Make