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Updated: 11 Aug 2018 10:33 am

13 times an MLA since 1957

Never lost an election

50 years president of DMK

5 times chief minister

Only chief minister to govern from a wheelchair

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It is an unforgivable irony of old age that Tamil Nadu’s ultimate communicator had to spend his last days in a cocoon of silence. Here was a leader who had influenced the course of the state’s politics for over six decades and yet he sat a mute spectator as Tamil Nadu’s polity was plunged into a chaotic roller coaster ride. Even the shrewd scriptwriter in him would not have foreseen two superstars throwing their hats into the political ring, emboldened by his retirement and the demise of his famous rival.