Former five-time Chief Minister of Tamilnadu M Karunanidhi passed away at the age of 94.
DMK party president and former five-time Chief Minister of Tamilnadu M Karunanidhi passed away on Tuesday at the Kauvery hospital in Chennai at the age of 94.
The DMK patriarch was admitted to hospital 11 days before he finally took his last breath. As the announcement of his death was made public, there has been a flurry of condolence messages from the people of all walks of life showing their grief over his demise. The honourable President of India Shri Ramnath Kovind and the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi have also expressed their sorrow on the demise of one of the tallest leaders in Indian politics.
Extremely sad to learn of the passing of Thiru M. Karunanidhi. A doyen of our public life, as a contributor to the development of Tamil Nadu and of India he has few peers. Our country is poorer today. My condolences to his family and millions of well-wishers #PresidentKovind
— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) August 7, 2018
Deeply saddened the passing away of Kalaignar Karunanidhi. He was one of the senior most leaders of India.
We have lost a deep-rooted mass leader, prolific thinker, accomplished writer and a stalwart whose life was devoted to the welfare of the poor and the marginalised. pic.twitter.com/jOZ3BOIZMj
— Chowkidar Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 7, 2018
M Karunanidhi was born in 1924 in a small village in Tamilnadu. In his initial years of career, he worked as a screenwriter in the Tamil film industry. At his teens, Karunanidhi got influenced the Dravidian movement led the Periyar EVR. He became an ardent follower of CN Annadurai and joined the DMK when later founded it in 1949.
He also wrote many books, stories and poems, thus contributed to the Tamil literature as well. At the age of 37, he got elected as an MLA in 1957. And in the year 1969, he became the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu. Karunanidhi was Tamil Nadu Chief Minister five times between 1969-71, 71-76, 89-91, 96-01 and 2006-11. He is one of the few politicians in India to have never lost a single election in their entire political career spanning as long as more than six decades.
Currently, I am pursuing B.A(H) Political science from Satyawati College, Delhi University.
I like public speaking, writing and reading in my leisure.
