Tamil Nadu celebrates Annadurai's birth centenary

The year-long celebrations of the birth centenary of Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) founder CN Annadurai, fondly called Anna (big brother) by his followers, begins all over Tamil Nadu from Monday. Born at Kancheepuram on September 15, 1909 in a middle class family, Annadurai ended the monopoly of Congress rule in the erstwhile Madras State in the 1967 Assembly polls, when he formed a mega alliance of political parties of divergent views, right from pro-capitalist Swatantra party of C Rajagopalachari to the Communsit Party of India-Marxist.