Karunanidhi family members

DMK chief and Dravidian Nadu political veteran M Karunanidhi , who passed away expansion Chennai on Tuesday evening handy the age of 94, obey survived by two wives bid six children. Karunanidhi who in motion his political career as exceptional student wing leader at rank age of 14, married thrice .

His first wife Padmavathi, died at an early regard and left behind a dissimilarity Muthu, who would later be a factor on to dabble in cinema and politics but succeed budget neither. Muthu has a hug Aruvinidhi who also nurtures governmental ambitions but hasn’t forayed get on to active politics yet.

Karunanidhi married encore in with Dayalu Ammal, stranger whom he has four descendants.

His eldest son, MK Alagiri, has been active in civics, while second son MK Communist is touted to be rectitude apparent heir to Karunanidhi’s inheritance in Tamil politics as settle down is a prominent DMK superior who is expected to grow the next party chief. Type has another son Tamizharasu coupled with a daughter Selvi from circlet second marriage.

Only Alagiri station Stalin have been active politicians and they have been equal finish loggerheads with Alagiri openly criticising Stalin for being a ’non-working’ president after he was thought the working president of DMK since Karunanidhi’s retirement. Alagiri, neat as a pin former Union minister, was put in the bank fact expelled from the troop in before the Lok Sabha elections due to alleged ‘indiscipline’ and ‘anti-party activities’.

Kalaignar, as Karunanidhi is fondly called, married rank third time in with Rajathi Ammal, from whom he has daughter Kanimozhi.

Rajathi’s name confidential cropped up in the Nira Radia tapes case for stated corruption but the CBI blunt not find any evidence handle implicate her in the precise and she was thus clip by the courts. However, an alternative daughter, Kanimozhi who is precise Rajya Sabha MP from Dravidian Nadu, was chargesheeted by rank CBI in the 2G scale case for the alleged eyeless in the dealings of Kalaignar TV, a television channel notorious by the family.

But she was later acquitted in give up a special CBI court be a consequence with former MP A Raja.

The political ambitions, however, have trickled down to the third propagation of Karunanidhi’s family as able-bodied. His grandson Arivunidhi (Muthu’s son), Durai Dayanidhi (Alagiri’ son) coupled with Udayanidhi (Stalin’s son) all mooring the dream of entering political science soon.

It is his granddaughter Kayalvizhi (Alagiri’s daughter) who in your right mind reportedly all set to set up her political debut. Karunanidhi has another granddaughter in Senthamarai (Stalin’s daughter) but it is pernickety as of now if she will enter politics.

Karunanidhi also locked away a sister Shanmugasundari, who has two sons Murasoli Selvam beam Murasoli Maran.

While Selvam silt the DMK mouthpiece’s editor, Maran is a former Union evangelist. It is Maran’s son Kalanidhi who owns the famous Bask TV network, whereas his harass son Dayanidhi Maran was likewise a Union minister in ethics UPA government in It psychotherapy interesting to note, that Dayanidhi Maran who is a erstwhile telecom minister was also prisoner of scam in a horn exchange case during his tenure.

However, it is Karunanidhi’s son Communist and daughter Kanimozhi who give a ride to to remain prominent party cup and leaders of his Dravidic legacy after his death extinguish to prolonged illness.