TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS BLOG TO THE GREATEST PATRIOT OF TAMILNADU WHO IS AN UNNOTICED SIMPLE, HUMBLE HUMANITARIAN WHOSE LIFE IS DEDICATED TO SACRIFICE, DEVOTION AND SERVITUDE. HE WAS THE ONLY LEADER I ADMIRED AND ADORNED. HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY A COURAGEOUS,DETERMINED FREEDOM FIGHTER SHREE SATHYAMURTHY WHO WAS ADMIRED BY BRITISHERS. HE WAS RESPECTED BY EVERYONE AS HE ENTHRALLED ANY AUDIENCE BY HIS POWERFUL ORATORICAL CAPACITY. MR.KAMARAJ HAD SATHYAMURTHY AS HIS MENTOR AND OBSERVED HIS LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES VERY CLOSELY. HE USED TO OBSERVE HOW SHREE SATHYAMURTHY INTERACTED WITH THE LEADERS AND WORKERS OF THE PARTY WHEN THEY VISITED THEIR HOUSE FOR DISCUSSION AND GUIDANCE. KAMARAJ USED TO WITNESS ALL THE SITUATIONS WITH SO MUCH OF EAGERNESS. THIS WAS DISCLOSED BY MRS.LAKSHMI KRISHNAMURTHY,DAUGHTER OF SATYAMURTHY IN JANATHA PARTY MEETING.SIMPLY BY OBSERVATION WITH KEENNESS HE WAS ABLE TO SEE HOW HE HANDLED THE SITUATIONS AND GIVING THE DECISIONS, WHICH HELPED HIM TO DECIDE AT THE TIME OF HIS TENURE OF CHIEF MINISTER AS WELL AS CONGRESS PRESIDENT.
SLOWLY HIS ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY WITH TACT AND SHREWDNESS,DEDICATED DETERMINATION CAME TO THE LIGHT OF LEADERS OF ALL INDIA CONGRESS PARTY AT THE TIME OF AVADI CONGRESS HEADED BY U.N.DHEBAR. WHEN THERE WAS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION BETWEEN RAJAJI AND ALL INDIA CONGRESS LEADERSHIP, KAMARAJ CAME INTO PROMINENCE.THEREAFTER HIS NAME INDUCTED IN THE HISTORY OF TAMILNADU AND INDIA. THE GOLDEN ERA OF TAMILNADU STARTED ON MR.KAMARAJ ASSUMING THE CHIEF MINISTER, WITH M. BHAKTHAVATSALAM,HOME MINISTER; C.SUBRAMANIAM,FINANCE AND EDUCATION; R.VENKATARAMAN,INDUSTRIES. P.KAKKAN, NSS MANRADIAR,JOTHI VENKATACHALAM, AND G.BHUVARAGAN AS MINISTERS HAS DONE THEIR JOBS VERY WELL TO THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE PUBLIC AND PAVED WAY FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPERITY.
MR.KAMARAJ IMAGE HIGHLIGHTED WHEN HE MOOTED OUT AN PLAN CALLED "KAMARAJ PLAN" TO STRENGTHEN THE PARTY BY OLD GUARD TO THE PARTY POSITION AND YOUNGSTER TO HOLD GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. THIS RESULTED IN LOT OF APPRECIATION AND CONDEMNATION. BUT PRIME MINISTER NEHRU WELCOMED IT AND FIRST MAN TO RESIGN IS MR.KAMARAJ WHICH WAS APPRECIATED BY ALL. NEHRU MADE KARMAVEERAR KAMARAJ AS CONGRESS PRESIDENT AND OPENLY SHOWERED ENCOMIUMS ON SELFLESS DEDICATED,COMMITTED LOYAL WORKER OF THE CONGRESS PARTY. AT THE TIME OF NEHRU'S DEMISE KAMARAJ CONVINCED MOST OF LEADERS FOR ANY UNANIMOUS CHOICE TO ELECT LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI AS PRIME MINISTER WHOSE LEADERSHIP QUALITIES HIGHLIGHTED AND APPRECIATED AT THE TIME OF PAKISTAN'S AGGRESSION. AGAIN ON SUDDEN DEMISE OF LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI,THERE WAS NO CONSENSUS PREVAILED AND DELIBERATIONS WAS THERE AND MRS.INDIRA GANDHI'S NAME WAS PROPOSED BY KAMARAJ, MOST OF THE LEADERS WERE CONVINCED BUT MORARJI DESAI WAS VEHEMENT TO CONTEST AND MRS.GANDHI WON BY A COMFORTABLE MARGIN.
EVEN IN THIS INSTANCE TOO, MANY PEOPLE APPLAUDED THE WAY KAMARAJ'S HANDLING THE SITUATION. WHEN THERE WAS RIFT BETWEEN THE PARTY AND THE PRIME MINISTER KAMARAJ'S SUGGESTION OF CONVENING MEETING TO SORT OUT THE DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS. MRS.GANDHI ADAMANT APPROACH GAVE THE LOYAL,DEDICATED KAMARAJ SHOCK OF HIS LIFE AND HE STARTED THINKING THAT HE COMMITTED THE GREATEST MISTAKE OF HIS LIFE AND STARTED REPENTING ON HIS STAND. HE STOOD BY THE ORGANIZATION CALLED CONGRESS-ORGANIZATION AND THE SPLINTER GROUP NAMED INDIRA CONGRESS. CONGRESS SPLIT CAUSED HEART BREAK FOR KAMARAJ. WHEN INDIRA GANDHI PROCLAIMED "STATE OF EMERGENCY' AND ARRESTED LEADERS WHO VOICED THEIR PROTEST ALL OVER INDIA, KAMARAJ TOTALLY PERPLEXED AND DUMBFOUNDED AND HE NEVER RECOVERED FROM THE SHOCK AND ON THE 2ND OCTOBER(GANDHIJI BIRTHDAY) HE PASSED AWAY.THE GREAT SOUL WHO STOOD FOR THE NATION WITH TOTALLY LOYAL, SINCERE, DEDICATION,DETERMINATION FOR THE PARTY HE BELONGED, WITHOUT SELFISHNESS, REMAINS WITH ME FOR EVER.
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