Tamil Nadu Timeline

Virudhunagar

3 events, 1941 to 1967.

  1. 1941

    1. 31 May 1941Politics

      Kamaraj elected Virudhunagar municipal chairman while in jail

      While imprisoned for opposing war contributions, K. Kamaraj was elected chairman of the Virudhunagar municipality.

  2. 1956

    1. 27 Jul 1956 to 13 Oct 1956Protest

      Sankaralinganar fasts to death for renaming the state Tamil Nadu

      Gandhian Sankaralinganar began a fast in Virudhunagar demanding that Madras State be renamed Tamil Nadu and died after 76 days.

  3. 1967

    1. Feb 1967Politics

      Kamaraj loses his seat to student leader P. Seenivasan

      In the 1967 election, Congress president K. Kamaraj was defeated in Virudhunagar by the young DMK candidate P. Seenivasan.