K Kamaraj

5 reformers who have inspired actor Vijay: K Kamaraj, Periyar to B R Ambedkar

October 28, 2024 5:21 pm

In his first political speech, actor-turned-politician says his party won’t “separate Dravidian nationalism and Tamil nationalism”, calling them the “two eyes of this soil”

K Kamaraj's 120th birth anniversary: Remembering Congress’s crisis man, ‘kingmaker’

July 16, 2023 12:20 pm

As a leader and two-time chief minister of the Madras State (present-day Tamil Nadu), he is credited for investing heavily in the state’s education and health. Under Kamaraj, Madras became one of the most industrialised states in India, garnering him respect from Jawaharlal Nehru as well.

#Politics | 'Architect of modern Tamil Nadu': Kamaraj hailed across party lines on birth anniversary

July 15, 2023 4:58 pm

As Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Kamaraj – who was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1976 -- was credited with introducing several pathbreaking measures, including mid-day meals in schools to attract children.

After MGR photo in BJP video, Kamaraj cutout at PM Modi's TN rally

February 26, 2021 7:35 am

Congress leaders called it shameful, saying that K Kamaraj had been subjected to an attack by the RSS. However, an RSS leader denied that the organisation had any role in the attack and said there was nothing wrong in the decision to use a cutout of the leader.

Tamil Nadu: BJP, Congress workers clash over garlanding of Kamaraj statue

July 15, 2018 6:29 pm

The BJP workers who accompanied Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan picked up an argument with their Congress counterparts, resulting in push and shove for some time.

October 3, Forty Years Ago: Death of Kamaraj

October 03, 2015 12:15 am

Kamaraj was Congress president when Nehru died and was instrumental in choosing Lal Bahadur Shastri as Nehru’s successor and, later, Indira Gandhi as PM.

In its continuing search for national icons, BJP now finds Kamaraj

July 17, 2015 8:51 am

Kamaraj is the latest in a line of leaders whose legacies the BJP has sought to appropriate.

In continuing search for icons to claim, BJP finds Kamaraj

July 17, 2015 6:30 pm