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Kalaignar karunanidhi burial
Kalaignar karunanidhi burial






kalaignar karunanidhi burial

Karunanidhi's political career benefitted immensely in taking part in and shaping that fight.

kalaignar karunanidhi burial

‘Anti-Hindi’ sentiment and ‘resisting cultural imperialism of the north’ remained the keystones of DMK's politics. Rajagopalachari insisted on compulsory learning of Hindi in the State”, as Sruthisagar Yamunan writes in The Hindu. The Justice Party, father of the Dravidian Movement, received a boost in its political campaign back in 1937 “when the Madras Presidency government led by C. He was also at the forefront of resisting ‘imperialism of northern India’ - always a sensitive issue in Tamizh politics. The AIADMK leadership perhaps failed to grasp the fact that the nonagenarian Kalaignar wasn’t just Tamil Nadu’s tallest leader butwas also one of the greatest influencers in Tamizh society and culture through his writings, films, poetry, not to speak of his contribution to the Dravidian cause over the course of a long political career spanning several decades. The ruling party's stance looked more like vendetta politics and pettiness over a deceased’s mortal remains instead of a rational position.

kalaignar karunanidhi burial

The death of a popular leader is an emotive issue. In denying DMK's demand, the AIADMK government had cited rules of the Coastal Regulation Zone Act and stressed on the fact that Karunanidhi was a “former” chief minister, not a “sitting” one and therefore, unlike Jayalalithaa, did not merit a place at Anna Square. If EPS and OPS failed to grasp the depth of the blunder, it could only be put down to their lack of political maturity. The fact that the Madras High Court had to step in to act on a petition filed by the DMK at a special hearing and order the state government to permit the burial of Karunanidhi at Anna Square on Marina sands beside his mentor and former chief minister Annadurai, amounts to little more than political suicide for the ruling party.Ĭhief minister E Palaniswamy (EPS) and his deputy O Panneerselvam (OPS) should have realised that the act of rejecting DMK’s wish to lay Kalaignar to rest at Marina Beach (near the memorials of J Jayalalithaa and MGR) might be seen as a slight to Tamil Nadu’s tallest leader, a grave insult to his memory and trigger widespread popular outrage. If DMK revealed the hollowness of its idealism in seeking a memorial for its departed patriarch, the AIADMK revealed its penchant for scoring own-goals in making a controversy out of it. A grasp of this reality is essential in understanding the controversy around a Marina Beach burial for the five-time Tamil Nadu chief minister who breathed his last on Tuesday at the age of 94. Politics, after all, is shaped by the society. It is here that we must seek the answers from the contradiction within DMK's ranks that teaches iconoclasm, yet seeks divinity for its leaders so that party workers, cadres and supporters can pay eternal homage. However, for all the stress on “rationalism” and “atheism” espoused by founder EV Ramasamy (Periyar) and later handholding by CN Annadurai’s DMK (that gradually deviated from its demand for a separate Dravida Nadu to join the political mainstream), the Dravidian Movement could never rid the Tamizh society of its steadfast rootedness in theism. The Dravidian Movement (that has its roots in the erstwhile Justice Party, founded in 1916 by around 30 non-Brahmanical leaders) has been vastly influential in shaping Dravidian identity, regional politics and even strengthening federalism in India. Yet if the Dravidian ideologue is being imbued with a cultish aura and venerated as a demigod in death, the absurdity mirrors the confusion within the larger Dravidian Movement that has deviated from its egalitarian ideals and roots in cultural autonomy to emerge as a vehicle for Tamizh chauvinism, driven by an insecurity forged in the fire of identity politics. DMK's desperation to get a Marina Beach burial for Muthuvel Karunanidhi (1924-2018) and its deification of Kalaignar stands in stark contrast with its so-called anti-idolatry ideology. There is no little amount of irony in the fact that a party that preaches rationalism, atheism and iconoclasm is desperate to secure for its departed leader a memorial for the ages.








Kalaignar karunanidhi burial