# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/g-k-vasan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:21:25.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/g-k-vasan"
name: "G. K. Vasan"
slug: "g-k-vasan"
description: "G. K. Vasan is an Indian politician and son of G. K. Moopanar, a veteran Indian National Congress leader. G. K. Vasan is currently the president of Tamil Maanila Congress (M), a political party in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.\nHe was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament from 2002 until 2014. During his tenure as a Member of Indian Parliament, he had functioned in several positions in the Union Government under UPA 1 & UPA II regime including as a Minister of State for Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation from Jan. 2006 – May 2009; Union Minister of Shipping from May 2009 – May 2014 and as an In-charge Minister for Labour from January 2014 - April 2014."
tagline: "Indian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GKVasan_copy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             2.493606138107417
  historical:           5.199794666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Васан, Говиндасвами Каруппиах"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Vasan"
    title: "G. K. Vasan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ജി.കെ. വാസൻ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C_%DA%A9%DB%92_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "جی کے واسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9C%E0%AE%BF._%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87._%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "ஜி. கே. வாசன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BF._%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%86._%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "జి. కె. వాసన్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3532853"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump