P Shanmugam

Chief Minister of Pondicherry (2000-01), Member of Parliament (multiple terms)

Born: 25th March 1927

Died: 2nd February 2013, Karaikal, Pondicherry

My parents, brother and I were on our first family holiday to Pondicherry. While we were having one of our meals at a restaurant, we saw this gentleman enter, accompanied by many others. The waiter told us that this was the one and only sitting Pondicherry MP. I got hold of a sheet of paper and requested him for his autograph, and he gladly obliged.

Mr Shanmugam went on to become the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry.

6th Jan 1985, Pondicherry