Mavilai Ramasamy Gandhi is an Indian politician and a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Nagercoil.

[4] He played a pivotal role in establishing the Hindu nationalist organisation, Bharatiya Jana Sangh in Kanyakumari.

[5] In 1967, he was the Kanyakumari district president of Jana Sangh and in 1975 he was the Tamil Nadu state secretary of the party.

He was assaulted by a gang with sickles when he was going for a walk on 21 April 2013 and suffered multiple injuries in this attempt to murder him.

Gandhi contested the 2021 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election and won against DMK's former Minister N. Suresh Rajan by a margin of 11,669 votes.