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| T T Krishnamachari |
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| P Chidambaram |
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| Dayanidhi Maran |
A Raja is not the first Union minister from Tamil Nadu whose tenure has been cut short by controversy. At least five other ministers from the state have had to leave office midway, the earliest being the illustrious finance minister T T Krishnamachari, who had to quit in the backdrop of the ‘Mundhra’ scandal in 1958
T T Krishnamachari (finance minister): Resigned in 1958 after late Feroze Gandhi exposed in Parliament that LIC had invested premium amounts in stocks of a company owned by known speculator Haridas Mundhra. Krishnamachari later returned to the Cabinet in 1964 as finance minister
Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy (minister of state for labour): Resigned in 1992 in protest against then PM Narasimha Rao referring the Cauvery issue to the Supreme Court for advisory opinion instead of implementing Cauvery tribunal’s interim order. He later became petroleum minister in the NDA government of 1998
P Chidambaram (minister of state for commerce): Resigned in 1992 over being a shareholder in Fairgrowth Financial Services Ltd, a company linked to the securities scam of 1992. Later, he was reinducted into the same government in 1995
P Rangarajan Kumaramangalam (minister of state for law, justice and company affairs): Resigned in 1993 after his continuance became untenable in the light of his criticism of then PM Narasimha Rao’s economic reforms. He joined Congress (Tiwari). He became power minister in the NDA regime
Dayanidhi Maran (minister for IT and communications): Resigned in 2007 on the DMK’s direction after he incurred the anger of his grand-uncle M Karunanidhi when a report in the Marans’ ‘Dinakaran’ daily created a divide in the family. He was back in the Cabinet in 2009 as textiles minister
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