A special executive council meeting of the PMK today elected Anbumani Ramadoss as the party president. A resolution to this effect was adopted at the meeting held at Tiruverkadu.
He has been a Member of Parliament since 2004. He served as the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare between 2004 and 2009, in the first Manmohan Singh Cabinet as a part of the UPA-I government. He is currently a Rajya Sabha MP from Tamilnadu.