E. V. K. Sampath

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In this Indian name, the name Erode Venkatta Naicker Krishnasamy is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Sampath.
E. V. K. Sampath
Personal details
Born5 March 1926
Erode, Tamil Nadu, British Raj
Died23 February 1977
NationalityIndian
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseSulochana
ChildrenE. V. K. S. Elangovan
Iniyan Sampath

Erode Venkatappa Krishnasamy Sampath (c. 5 March 1926 – 23 February 1977), usually referred to as E. V. K. Sampath was a prominent

Member of Parliament from the constituency of Namakkal.[4]

He belonged to a politically active family. He was nephew of Periyar and his father was an active politician himself. He is also the father of other prominent politicians of Tamil Nadu, namely, E. V. K. S. Elangovan and Iniyan Sampath and his wife Sulochana Sampath too was in active politics, holding high ranks within the Tamil Nadu government.[3]

Family

Sampath was born in the town of

Kudiarasu (Republic), the party organ for Justice party.[3]

In the year 1946 Sampath married Sulochana the daughter of Thirupathur G. Samy Naidu who was one of the pillars of the

Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board, Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Text Book Society and Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Small Scale Industries Development Corporation. Sulochana was the organisation secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and an AIADMK veteran for several years.[5] She died in June 2015, aged 86.[6][7]

Entry into politics

See also:
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

He was attracted to Periyar's self-respect movement since early days of his life.

self-respect in the context of a caste based society that considered them to be a lower end of the hierarchy.[9] As a student of the Intermediate Course in Pachaiyappa's College in Chennai, he participated in the programmes and agitations of DK. In the year 1944 he was declared as the Commander-in-chief of the Black Shirt Brigade of Periyar's movement.[3]

In DMK

See also: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

In 1949, he along with Annadurai split from the DK and formed their own party DMK.

Tamil Nationalistic ideologies from its parent organisation but upheld the principles of democratic party organisation.[2] In the inaugural function they had kept one empty chair on the head of the dais for Periyar, saying that he was their permanent leader.[11] However, faced with the reality of an independent India setting in motion the democratic process under a new Constitution, DMK preferred to keep the separatist issue on the backburner.[12]

Breakaway from DMK

In 1961 along with Tamil poet

Rajagopalachari’s Swatantra Party, whereas Sampath was keen to ally with the Communist Party of India
. [14] Later one more founder members of DMK, actor Sivaji Ganesan[2] would move to Sampath's TNP,[15] after his feud with the DMK leadership and calling it a glamour party.[2]

Merger into Congress

In 1964 Sampath, with invitation from

Kamaraj merged his party with the Congress. Sampath later started Congress journals namely Tamil Cheithi, Jayaberigai (Dailies) and Alaigal (Weekly), but incurred heavy financial losses. To ensure the victory of the Congress Parliament candidates in Tamil Nadu, Indira Gandhi entrusted the entire election responsibility in the hands of Sampath in the year 1977. Sampath was made secretary of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and later appointed as the vice-president of the TNCC. It was Sampath who translated the speeches made by Indira Gandhi into Tamil. Sampath donated his property, 'Jawahar Illam', at Erode, to be used as the Erode District Congress Committee headquarters. Till date the headquarters functions there. Sampath died on 23 February 1977.[3] A road in Vepery, Chennai and a government building complex in College Road, Chennai are named after him.[16][17]

References

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  4. ^ Members of second Lok Sabha.
  5. ^ Elangovans brother floats new party named after eenaduindia.com Archived 9 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Sulochana Sampath passes away". The Hindu. 6 June 2015.
  7. ^ "Veteran AIADMK leader Sulochana Sampath dead". The Times of India. 7 June 2015.
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  11. ^ "Contentious issues on religion and temples to be decided by court: BJP President J P Nadda". Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  12. ^ "Archived copy". www.flonnet.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ "Quo Vadis Karunanadhi". sangam.org. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  14. ^ Rudolph, L (1961). "Urban Life and Populist Radicalism: Dravidian Politics in Madras". The Journal of Asian Studies. 20 (3). Association for Asian Studies: 283–297.
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  15. ^ "Sivaji Ganesan - Memorable". Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  16. ^ "Chennai Today". The Hindu. 26 April 2010. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
  17. ^ "Nostalgic notes". The Hindu. 10 April 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2010.

See also

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