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S.Kalayanasundaram

A Biography of S.Kalayanasundaram an ardent follower of Kalaignar Karunanidhi, a disciplined action hero of Talapathi M.K.Stalin and the District Secretary of Thanjavur North.

Name :	S.Kalayanasundaram Parents:	K.Sundararajan and S.Sundarambal Brother:	Sundara Ramamurthi Children:	Sumathi, Umarani, Muthuselvan, Sundararajan, Sridharan

Sundararaja Vanniar was a congress veteran of the then combined Thanjavur District. He was also a respected member of the District Board. He brought Rajaji, the then State Chief Minister, Kamaraj, the State Congress leader, Kakkan, Congress leader and G.K.Moopanar on the occasion of Bhoomidhana Movement Programme at Pampaipadaiyur and gifted 2 acres from his own properties. To that benefactor S.Kalyanasundaram was born as his second son justifying his proud lineage and in line with his father dedicated himself to public service.

Kalayansundaram’s Political Journey: A follower of Periyar E.V.Ramasamy even in his teens he left school and immersed himself in a students’ agitation announced by C.N.Annadurai called as Anna. He was then a tenth standard student at Board High School at Kumbakonam during 1958-59. Thus started his political journey. Due to his intense political activities his initials S.K. gained immense prominence supplanting his full name. Even now he is known only as SK by all.

All famous leaders of the Dravidian movement like Periyar, Anna, Kalaignar, Professor Anabazhagan and frontline leaders of the movement had visited his house. While Kalaignar visited his house he got a hefty donation from his father Sundararaja Vanniar towards building a party office at Kumbakonam.

He served as an undivided Kumbakonam Union DMK Secretary for five times that is 27 years during 1972-1998. While he was Panchayat Board President, the great Dravidian Patriarch Periyar visited his house at Pampaipadaiyur. A representation was made at Periyar by the depressed and Adidravida communities that their residential area lacked basic amenities like roads and water facilities etc., Cognizant of their demands SK provided all the facilities and named their place as “Thanthai Periyar Nagar”.

He was Deputy District Secretary of the unified Thanjavur District from 1995 to 1998. In 1996 SK was elected as District Panchayat council member and DMK enjoyed a majority in it and SK as about to assume the Chairman post. But he gave up that post as the high command allotted it to Tamil Manila Congress.

In the Parliamentary elections of 1998, the then DMK district secretary and state government Minister His Majesty Ko.Si.Mani wanted to field SK as candidate in the Thanjavur Parliamentary constituency. But SK kindly declined it and gave it up in favour of S.S.Pazhanimanickam the official nominee. He also worked for him and ensured his victory. He was incharge of Parliamentary elections of 1997, 1998, 2004 and 2009 at Thanjavur constituency and he worked efficiently. He was nominated as organizer incharge of parliamentary elections at Thiruchirappalli Lok Sabha Constituency in the 2014 elections.

He worked as a member of the central executive committee of DMK party from 2002 to 2015 for 13 years. He worked as District Secretary of Thanjavur North for the first time during 1998 to 2002 and then again from 2015 onwards in which he is continuing even now. He remains as one of the most experienced senior district secretaries with luminous maturity and grandeur.

How SK’s social work originated? – A Sketch

He started his social service through politics by getting elected as Panchayat Board President of Aryappadaiyur Village Panchayat when he was 19 only. His father initiated many progressive programmes in Kumbakonam. Then there was no link road facility between Swamimalai to Thiruvaikavur via Nagakudi. SK put a request at his father to construct a link road. His father accepted it. He sought monetary help at others in vain. He then purchased a house site near the Government Hospital at Swamimalai in his own name from his own resources and donated it to Panchayat Union and then created that link road. SK inherited this legacy of public service from his family.

During Nineteen Sixties Kumbakonam remained Congress fortress. Then father of Sundararaja Vanniar was one of the prominent leaders of Thanjavur District Congress. Must against will, SK filed his nomination as a DMK candidate. The party chose a different candidate. He worked for the DMK candidate going against the will of his father. In the 1967 elections he filed his nomination for Kumbakonam and Papanasam assembly constituencies.

In 1967 DMK scored a resounding victory to power. Then SK assumed the role of Director of the Chandrasekarapuram Cooperative Marketing Society and proved that cooperatives could distribute consumer goods efficiently and economically and showed the way for the state and the nation. He was congratulated by Dr.Kalaignar Karunanidhi for this accomplishment. Later these kind of cooperatives were started throughout the state modeled on Chandrasekarapuram Cooperative Society.

He became the treasurer of the Chandrasekarapuram Society in 1971, Vice-President in 1974 and then its President 1996. During these tenures the society registered vast strides of improvement. A own building was purchased for the society and many divisions of sale were instituted. Procurement of goods was directed from avoiding malpractices. Commercial goods like groceries, clothes, food etc were distributed. There was shortage of baby food and racketing in them in the outside market. The cooperative society stepped into remove this ordeal. On this basis of family card, baby food was distributed at the initiative of SK.

During his incumbency, he availed himself of the deep bore well programme run by oil engines of the central government through the state government and helped the farmers of Thanjavur District get that facility.

In 1971, the high command of DMK fielded a High Court lawyer Thiru. N. Ganapathi at Papanasam assembly constituency and Kalaignar Karunanidhi commanded SK to ensure his success and SK faithfully executed his dictate and won Kalaignar’s regard.

During the unprecedented emergency declared in India during 1975-1977, the unified Thanjavur District DMK Secretary Mannai Narayanaswami, called as Mannai by his native, had gone underground with his beard to cover up his identity. He was greatly helped by SK and he suffered a lot for that during the emergency. Later SK brought Kalaignar to Kumbakonam and provided party funds and proved himself as an important.

SK as a Lieutenant of the DMK Party

Even though there were better chances to win the Kumbakonam Assembly Constituency he yielded to the request of his friend and then Town Secretary Era.Durai and gave up his claim in 1977 after the end of emergency. In 1981, he conducted the DMK state level agricultural conference at his Aryappadaiyur Panchayat complying with the direction of the District Secretary Ko.Si.Mani. DMK party president Kalaignar presided over the conference and it was a great success.

During the assembly elections in 1984, he filed nomination for Kumbakonam constituency. His name and the party’s symbol found a place in the ballot paper but the DMK high command allotted the seat to Janatha Party and deputed him to work at Papanasam. He complied with the order and established his unflinching loyalty. His name in the Kumbakonam Assembly ballot paper unremoved and he got a huge 20000 votes without his going to constituency justifying his fair name. In 1986, he got a thunderous victory as the Kumbakonam Panchayat Union Council Chairman defeating the ruling party.

There are three rivers Thirumalairayan, Mudikondan and Kudamurutti separating the three panchayats of Aryappadaivedu,, Pazhaiyarai and Udayalur and they were linked by three bridges sponsored and built by the onerous efforts of SK.

His eldest daughter Sow.Sumathi’s marriage was solemnized by Muthamizh Arignar Dr.Kalaignar Karunanidhi. The elaborate arrangements and the massive gathering made Kalaignar Karunanidhi wonder whether it was a marriage event or a party conference.

In 1989, he made way to Ko.Si.Mani the then District Secretary to contest in Kumbakonam constituency. There was one more reason for his exit from Kumbakonam. He was to take on the Congress heavy weight Thiru G.K.Moopanar at Papanasam as per the DMK high command’s order. He provided a stiff fight to him and lost by a slender difference. SK’s stiff fight at the Moopanar’s home turf was talk of the state and Kalaignar appreciated him very much. In 1991 he came again to Papanasam to contest while the situation was propitious for his victory the unexpected assassination of Rajiv Gandhi tilted the balance against him by a slender margin this time too. In 1996, when the assembly election was announced he sought nomination at Papanasam assembly constituency. As the DMK party was in alliance with the Tamil Manila Congress, the Papanasam seat was allotted to it. The DMK district secretary Ko.Si.Mani was contesting in Kumbakonam assembly constituency. He requested SK to work for him. SK carried out the election campaign at Kumbakonam with relentless vigour and won the seat for Thiru Ko.Si.Mani. Thiru Ko.Si.Mani was made a minister in Kalaignar’s cabinet. The Minister made SK as his constituency representative. He carried out all the works at the assembly constituency of particularly Kumbakonam Bus Stand, Tharasuram Bus Stand, Tharasuram Arignar Anna Vegetable Market, Separate Kumbakonam Regional Transport Office (TN 68), the DEO office, extension of the Government Hospital at Kumbakonam they being prominent among other things he carried out for Minister.

In 1998, he was appointed by His Majesty Ko.Si.Mani and the respected Kalaignar as North Thanjavur District Secretary of DMK and he ably acquitted himself in this assignment. After a pause of ten years he was fielded as a candidate at Papanasam assembly constituency and he lost success with a small margin of difference.

In 2005, he was put in charge of Thanjavur Zonal DMK Conference by the DMK high command and he won the appreciation of Kalaignar and Thalapathi M.K.Stalin for its excellent conduct. In the wake of this conference, general elections were held and DMK registered a spectacular victory and assumed power again.

Whatever he touches, he never left them unadorned

SK has become a legend in his life time. Rain or shine he lives for the party. He has relegated his personal and family interests to the background and holds aloft the interests of the party. He maintains a spotless political integrity. DMK is his voyage and public services are his masters. He has nothing to crave for himself. He is a nishkamya yogi and his dictum is “Loka Samasta Sukino Bavandhu”.