Article: Beginning, the Age of M.K. Stalin

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Chennai, Dec. 10 -- He has waited 42 long and patient years to be where he is today, a de facto chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

He was named Stalin as father Muthuvel Karunanidhi - an ambitious and rising Dravidian politician - was an admirer of the Russian Joseph Stalin who died in 1953, the year the Indian Stalin was born.

Stalin's first political lessons came in 1967 - the year the DMK ousted the Congress party from Fort St George, the state secretariat, and rode to power. The 14-year-old got to campaign for his cousin Murasoli Maran, contesting a Lok Sabha seat.

By 1973, Stalin was voted into the general committee of ...

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