Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy or Vazhapadi K. Ramamoorthy (18 January 1940 – 27 October 2002) was an Indian trade unionist and politician.
With the creation of the TRC, he subsequently announced that it would have an alliance with AIADMK in the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
[5] A few days later, J. Jayalalitha announced that TRC was entering the AIADMK-led front, although she denied having engineered the split in the Congress Party.
[7] Ramamurthy was associated with various trade unions and workers' organizations, serving as honorary president of INTUC Tamil Nadu, Founder-President of the International Institute for Non-aligned Studies, Vice-President of INTUC, Tamil Nadu, and founding member and president of Indian National Rural Labour Federation INRLF, a labour union formed for unorganized rural employees.
He also married Meenakshi and they have a son, vazhapadi Rama kannan, state coordinator, youth congress.