A symbol that has been the face of a regional heavyweight for 66 years

Referred to as Udhayasuriyan in Tamil, it was a free symbol at first. But it became synonymous with the DMK in the then Madras State only eight years after the party was launched by C.N. Annadurai and after the Election Commission recognised it in 1958, following the party’s performance in the 1957 election

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