S. Selvaraj

There was confusion in 2011 when Selvaraj and 27 other DMK members were arrested in relation to a charge dating from 2001 when they had protested against the arrest of Karunanidhi, the former DMK Chief Minister. The defendants thought that the case had been withdrawn.^[5] He had also been investigated in 2002 when the new Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) targeted several officials from the prior DMK government whom she considered held assets that were disproportionate to their income. There were suggestions that Jayalalithaa was engaging in a political tit-for-tat related to court cases filed against AIADMK people by the DMK when that party had been in power.^[6] By July 2003, virtually all of the 24 ministers of the former DMK government were under investigation, and Selvaraj was one of three against whom chargesheets had been issued.^[7]

Selvaraj, who had been suffering ill-health due to a kidney problem, died on 25 November 2012, aged 66 or 67. He was cremated in his home village of Meenakshipuram Pudur and was survived by a son and two daughters.^[2][8] One of his daughters, B. Chithra Selvi, was controversially nominated as a DMK candidate for the Manamadurai constituency in the 2016 state assembly election. Local party workers thought that she was unsuitable because she came from Chennai.^[9]