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Quiz on C.N. ANNADURAI - on the eve of his Birth Anniversary.



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N. Annadurai was born on 15 September 1909 and died on 3 February 1969.

His middle name was .

He is popularly called Anna (which means elder brother in Tamil).

He was a former of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

He was the first member of a party to hold the post of a Chief Minister.

He also was the first leader to form a majority government in independent India.

He also was an acclaimed in the Tamil language.

He had scripted and acted in several .

Some of his plays were later made as .

He started his career as a and then moved into the political scene of the Madras Presidency as a .

After severing his close relations with Periyar, he launched his own party, .

Various protests against the then ruling government took him to on several occasions.

His party won a victory in the 1967 state elections.

He legalised marriages.

He also enforced a language policy (over the three language formula in other southern states).

He renamed the State to Tamil Nadu.

However, he died of just two years into office and his funeral was the most attended one at that time.

The attendance volume at his funeral won the World record.

Years after his death, in 1972, M. G. Ramachandran renamed his party as .