Candidate Name	தயாநிதி மாறன்
State	Tamil Nadu
Party	Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Constituency	Chennai Central
Candidate Current Position	MP

Dayanidhi is the second son of ex-minister Murasoli Maran, who had been the Commerce and Industrial minister. He is also the grandnephew of DMK president and ex-chief minister of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network. He had his schooling with Don Bosco, Egmore, Chennai. He received initial education in Tamil Nadu and graduated in Economics from Loyola College. He married Priya Dayanithi and have a son and a daughter.
 
Political Career:
 
He contested from Central Chennai Constituency in Tamil Nadu as a DMK party candidate and been elected thrice during the 2004, 2009 & 2019 elections as Member of Parliament.
He was appointed Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology on 26 May 2004. His ministry introduced "One Rupee One India" plan across the country, which enabled calls across the country at a rate of 1 ₹ per minute.
 
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, DMK fell in the entire Tamil Nadu constituency because of Jayalalitha. At the time, Dayanithi lost his favorite constituency, Chennai Central, to ADMK candidate SR Vijayakumar. He earns 36.4 percentage votes in the Lok Sabha election.
 
In 2019, the DMK is on the rise again in Tamil Nadu. Dayanithi stood in the Chennai Central Constituency and won by 57 percent of the votes.