 During 1989 - 1991 DMK rule he was the Minister for Food  and during 1996 - 2001 Minister for Health & Electricity 
 and during 2006 - 2011 Minister for Electricity and Rural Industries 




Veerasamy has had a slow and steady rise in Tamil Nadu politics.He worked as a clerk in the state electricity board, was handpicked by DMK founder, C N Annadurai, as a candidate for the Arcot constituency in 1967.He worked for the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Party and after the death of S. J. Sadiq Pasha, then treasurer of the DMK Party, he became the treasurer and emerged as No 3 in the party after Karunanidhi and K Anbazhagan in the early eighties 
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