DMK veteran Anbazhagan passes away at 97

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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary for 43 years K Anbazhagan passed away in Chennai on Saturday at the age of 97.

He breathed his last at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, following a prolonged illness.

Anbazhagan was the general secretary of DMK for nine times from 1977.

 

He was a nine-time MLA, one-time Lok Sabha member and former finance minister of Tamil Nadu and a close friend of former Chief Minister late Karunanidhi.

He was called Peraasiriyar (professor) as he worked as a lecturer in Pachayappa college from 1944 to 1957, later he resigned and contested election.

DMK president M K Stalin released a statement on Anbazhagan’s death on Saturday.

‘The DMK condoles the demise of general secretary K Anbazhagan.

‘The DMK postpones all its party functions for 1 week and all DMK flags to fly half-mast for a week,’ the statement read.

The mortal remains of Anbazhagan have been kept at his residence in Kizhpakkam in Chennai.

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