Former minister N Selvaraj passes away

N Selvaraj, former DMK minister, passed away yesterday at a private hospital in Trichy.

The 75-year-old was ailing for sometime. He was the forest minister in the DMK government from 2006-2011. He had quit DMK in 1994 and joined Vaiko to start MDMK. He rejoined DMK and became the forest minister after winning the assembly election in 2006.