E.V.K.Sampath - who is it ??

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">He belonged to a politically active family. He was nephew of Periyar and his father was an active politician himself. He is also the father of other prominent politicians of Tamil Nadu, namely, </span>E. V. K. S. Elangovan<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and </span>Iniyan Sampath<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and his wife </span>Sulochana Sampath<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> too was in active politics, holding high ranks within the </span>Tamil Nadu.<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7h5xzbco2cW-govGyINvE0WIhDaZMOHuY1my_KKnlI0J8YCurvXm9wxHDT61X3cGyE7sYX3TcD0MW3CWCOwfwu-03VyZjiMVWXti3KtHBIXeEIHOMoUHG688KXJBTg54qPK2F_M6x848/s1600/EVKS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7h5xzbco2cW-govGyINvE0WIhDaZMOHuY1my_KKnlI0J8YCurvXm9wxHDT61X3cGyE7sYX3TcD0MW3CWCOwfwu-03VyZjiMVWXti3KtHBIXeEIHOMoUHG688KXJBTg54qPK2F_M6x848/s1600/EVKS.jpg" width="286" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">He was attracted to Periyar's self-respect movement since early days of his life.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> The movement aimed at achieving a society where </span>backward castes<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> have equal</span>human rights,<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and encouraging backward castes to have </span>self-respect<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in the context of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Caste">caste</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> based society that considered them to be a lower end of the hierarchy</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> As a student of the Intermediate Course in </span>Pachaiyappa's College<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> in </span>Chennai<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">, he participated in the programmes and agitations of DK. In the year 1944 he was declared as the Commander-in-chief of the </span><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Black Shirt Brigade</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> of Periyar's movement.</span></span></b></span></div>

E.V.K.Sampath - who is it ??

He belonged to a politically active family. He was nephew of Periyar and his father was an active politician himself. He is also the father...

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