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Holy shit lmao if Suresh Gopi brings his silver screen personality to the campaign BJP will atleast win Thrissur !bharatiya

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btw, I always wondered and too lazy to find out, but why 2 dmks? aiadmk and dmk, are they split parties like congress and ysr congress?

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Their history goes all the way back to pre-independence. The original party was Dravidar Kazhagam (which itself succeeded from previous parties) founded by a guy called Periyar. He was a respected politician and is considered father of the Dravidian movement. Due to political differences eventually one of Periyar's followers, Annadurai, split from the party and founded DMK, just after independence.

Karunanidhi was already a rising star in the party and when Annadurai suddenly passed away, he was elected to be his successor. Meanwhile, MG Ramachandran (MGR), who was a co-party member and Karunanidhi's friend for years at this point, had become a movie superstar by the time of Annadurai's death. This is when trouble began, clash of two massive egos of Karunanidhi and MGR. Their political feud led to MGR founding AIDMK. And the rest is history. The politics of the state have been ping-ponging between the two parties ever since.

There's a good, but heavily fictionalized, movie about this story. You've probably heard of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iruvar

Here's the Telugu version.

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danke! and wow I saw iddaru in theatres when I was kid, never knew this about mgr and blindboy, mostly went because it was aishwarya rais first movie

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