He quit the party to join Vaiko's Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, where he remained a member for some time before being convinced by then DMK Coimbatore district secretary, Pongalur Palanisamy, to rejoin the DMK before the 1996 Tamil Nadu assembly polls.
Palanisamy considered him to be a charismatic leader with strong backing from the dalit community in Valparai.
[citation needed] Singaravelu won the Valparai constituency in the 1996 elections as a DMK candidate.
[1] Electoral pacts for the 2001 election saw the DMK to prefer that the Puthiya Tamizhagam party contest it rather than Singaravelu.
[citation needed] He died on 7 December 2011 and was survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.