Annadurai remembered on 106th birth anniversary

September 15, 2014 01:31 pm | Updated 02:15 pm IST - Chennai

Veteran Dravidian leader and former Chief Minister C N Annadurai was remembered in Tamil Nadu on the occasion of his 106th birth anniversary.

DMK President M Karunanidhi, accompanied by senior leaders including M K Stalin, paid floral tributes to the portrait of Annadurai, fondly addressed as 'Anna' by his followers.

AIADMK leaders also paid tributes to the leader under party’s Presidium Chairman E Madhusudhanan.

MDMK leader Vaiko and DMDK founder Vijayakanth paid floral tributes to Annadurai. In Delhi, Principal Resident Commissioner of Tamil Nadu House, Jasbir Singh Bajaj, garlanded a statue of Anna.

Annadurai, founder of DMK, ushered in the first non—Congress Government in Tamil Nadu. His party unseated the Congress Government in 1967 and he became the Chief Minister.

A veteran Dravidian leader, he is respected across party lines.

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