Congress' Glory Days In TN End
The New Indian Express Chennai|April 23, 2021
The 1967 elections merely dethroned Congress, but the 1971 elections decimated it in Tamil Nadu, mainly due to the vertical split of the Congress into factions -- one led by Indira Gandhi and another led by a set of senior Congress leaders, including K Kamaraj.
S Kumaresan
Congress' Glory Days In TN End

The elections were held under extraordinary circumstances due to changes at the national level. Indira Gandhi dissolved the Parliament to seek a fresh mandate for her to strengthen her hold. In Tamil Nadu too, M Karunanidhi, who was into his second year of Chief Ministership, wanted to show that he can win elections even in the absence of his mentor CN Annadurai.

Karunanidhi made use of the split within the Congress and allied with the Congress faction led by Indira Gandhi. But it was on conditions that the Congress faction will not contest in any Assembly seat and will contest only in 10 Lok Sabha seats. Soon after the DMK’s 1967 victory, the then party chief CN Annadurai managed to pacify Dravida Kazhagam leader ‘Periyar’ E V Ramasamy, who was until then strongly campaigning against the DMK. Periyar was also pleased by legal reforms initiated by the DMK regime on lines of the Dravidian ideology and extended his support to Karunanidhi in the 1971 polls.

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