Shared poverty, ambition and dreams had drawn them together as friends. He was peeved that during the 1971 election campaign many of the financial dealings of the party were kept away from him. In fact, he himself continued to address Kalaignar as ‘Andavanae’ or ‘god’ even after their 27-year friendship had ended on Octowhen, as treasurer of the DMK, MGR publicly sought accounts of DMK functionaries and those in government in meetings in Thirukazhukundram town, and later that evening in Royapettah, Chennai. But the agenda did not take away from the respect MGR had for his former leader. The ADMK’s one-point agenda was simply to isolate Kalaignar Karunanidhi, the leader of the DMK, and until January 30, 1976, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. MGR had broken company with the DMK and had founded the ADMK (later AIADMK) on October 18, 1972.
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