He is a shotgun shooter and is married to politician AMMK Organising Secretary Tmt.

[1] The position is ceremonial and heads some family-owned trusts, a patron of a few clubs and hereditary trustee of temples.

He is a skeet shooter[2] and is the president of the Royal Pudukkottai Sports Club, which trains shooters in Trap, Double Trap and Skeet Events and Vice President of the Tamil Nadu Shooting Association.

He is married to Rani Sarubala Tondaiman, who is the organising secretary of Amma Makkal Munnettra Kazhagam, former mayor of Tiruchirappalli and the treasurer of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club.

[3] The couple have a son, R. Prithviraj Tondaiman, who is an International Trap Shooter and the Secretary of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club,[2] and a daughter, Radha Niranjani, who is also a national trap shooter and the Joint Treasurer of Royal Pudukottai Sports Club.