Well known politician turned educationist and Founder of Jeppiaar Educational Trust Jeppiaar passed away in Chennai on Saturday. The 85-year-old was brought dead to the Global hospital in Chennai. The Chancellor of Sathyabama University, Jesadimai Pangiraj also known as JPR started his career as a police man. A former member of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly and AIADMK member Jeppiaar was known to be a close confidante of former Chief Minister MG Ramachandran. He had also acted as the chief whip of the Tamil Nadu assembly. He was AIADMK secretary of the Chennai District from 1972 to 1987 and was special envoy to the Chief Minister. In an interview to TNIE, his daughter Maria had once said, “Appa was like MGR’s right hand. They shared a close relationship. In fact, when we were born, it was MGR who named us Anbu Nila and Thanga Nila. We were quite young when MGR passed away so we haven’t interacted much with him but he taught us many things in life.” It w...