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unusual facts about Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu



2000 Dharmapuri bus burning

Soon after the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party (DMK) came into power in Tamil Nadu in 1996, it filed a series of corruption cases against the former Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary J. Jayalalithaa, other ministers, and bureaucrats of her government.

Andipatti

It is also well known for the incident when the late All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief Minister MGR won the MLA election in this place even without visiting this place for election campaign since he was admitted to SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and became the Chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

M. Sivasithamparam

M. G. Ramachandran, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, gave the family a flat to stay in.

Ranganayaki Rajagopalan

In 1979, she was awarded the title of "Kalaimamani" by the then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M. G. Ramachandran.

S. Muthiah

At the inauguration of the 2009 edition of the Chennai Book Fair, M. Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu regretted the fact that Muthiah's book Madras Rediscovered did not make even a passing mention of the tenures of C. N. Annadurai or himself.

Sarojini Varadappan

She was the daughter of former Chief Minister of Madras, M. Bhaktavatsalam.

Sasikala Natarajan

Sasikala Natarajan (born 1957) is an confidante of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) politician and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa.


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1991 in India

24 June - J. Jayalalithaa is sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time.

Coimbatore bypass

In 2011, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa, announced the construction of two new flyovers at Ukkadam and Athupalam to help decongest the Palakkad Road.

Dayanidhi Maran

He is also the grandnephew of DMK president and ex-chief minister of Tamil Nadu, M Karunanidhi.

Devakottai Ramanathan

Ramanathan received first prize in a state level recitation competition organized by Murasoli Arakattalai in 2002 and was felicitated by Mr. M. Karunanidhi, ex Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and a highly recognized figure in the field of Tamil Literature.

Kamraj

An alternative spelling of K. Kamaraj, a Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (then Madras state).

Pandara Vannian

All these similarities had led to more recent comparison of the LTTE leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran,to him by present day Tamil nationalists, Karunanidhi ex Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in his book, Payum Puli Pandara Vanniyan, and Nedumaran.

RmT Sambandham

Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu state M. Karunanidhi and several other political personalities condoled his death.