TVK legislator J C D Prabhakar unanimously elected as Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker

Sengottaiyan and Udhayanidhi approached Prabhakar and congratulated him.

Chennai: J C D Prabhakar, who was AIADMK MLA from Villivakkam under Chief Ministers M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa in 1980 and 2011, was on Tuesday elected unanimously as the Speaker of the 17th Tamil Nadu Assembly. Thuraiyur MLA M Ravishankar was also elected unanimously as the deputy speaker of the House.

73-year-old Prabhakar, who is a fond chess player and headed the Chess Federation of India in the past, is a veteran politician who worked closely with Congress veteran G K Moopanar after he quit the AIADMK following MGR’s death.

Prabhakar, who lost the 2016 elections to DMK President M K Stalin from Kolathur, was expelled from the AIADMK in 2022 along with former chief minister O Panneerselvam. He kept away from active politics for a while before joining the TVK a few months ago – Prabhakar won from Thousand Lights constituency in the April 23 assembly elections.