Senior advocate and former Rajya Sabha MP R Shanmugasundaram was on Sunday appointed as the Advocate-General of Tamil Nadu, two days after the DMK Government led by Chief Minister M K Stalin assumed office.
Shanmugasundaram will take over as the Advocate-General on Monday, and is likely to begin his work immediately. His appointment comes days after Vijay Narayan resigned as Advocate-General after the defeat of the AIADMK government in the April 6 elections, results of which were announced on May 2.
In 1995, Shanmugasundaram escaped a murderous attack on him by alleged AIADMK men when he was preparing to file a complaint against the then Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. The senior lawyer was Rajya Sabha MP from 2002 to 2008.
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