Charubala Tondaiman


Rani Sarubala Rajammani Ayi Sahib, popularly known as Mayor Sarubala Thondaiman , is an Indian politician and member of the royal house of Pudukkottai. She was elected for mayor of Tiruchirappalli City Corporation two times and wife of R. Rajagopala Tondaiman, the present head of the royal house of Pudukkottai she Was President of Trichy Unit Tamil Maanila Congress. She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on 15 September 2016. Later, she sided with RK Nagar MLA Dhinakaran of .
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Early life

Sarubala Tondaiman was born on 7 October 1958 to Subramaniam, a Superintendent Engineer of the Tamil Nadu Highways Department and his wife Sarojini, granddaughter of late Sri Bhaskara Tondaimsn IFS from Tirunelveli sister of Ramasundaram IFS former public Secretary and Sister in law of Archana Ramasundram IFS, Sarubala Tondaiman has a masters in arts and philosophy.

Politics

From her early days, Sarubala has been an active member of the Indian National Congress. She served as the mayor of Tiruchirappalli from 2001 to 2009. During the 2009 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she stood from the Tiruchirappalli Lok Sabha constituency and lost to P. Kumar consecutively of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by 4,335 votes and 1,00,300 votes respectively.
Sarubala is currently the Joint Convenor of the Movement for the Restoration of Vedic Wisdom. She is also the Secretary of ACME Matriculation School, Tiruchirappalli and the Pudukkottai Mannar Educational and Charitable Trust and Mannar Arts & Science College, Tiruchirappalli.
She quit the Tamil Maanila Congress and joined the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam on 15 September 2016.
She contested unsussessfully in the 2019 Parliamentary elections in Tiruchirappalli constituency as an Independent candiate.