K. P. Kandasamy was a politician from the India

India

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n state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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 and founder of Dinakaran

Dinakaran

Dinakaran is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in India. , Dinakaran is the largest Tamil daily newspaper in terms of net paid circulation, which was 1,235,220...

, a Tamil

Tamil language

Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

 daily newspaper. He founded Dinakaran in support of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, India. It is a Dravidian party founded by C. N. Annadurai as a breakaway faction from the Dravidar Kazhagam headed by Periyar...

 (DMK) when his father-in-law, S. P. Adithanar

S. P. Adithanar

Si. Balasubramania Adithan a.K.a Si. Ba. Adithan , popularly called as Adithanar, was a Tamil lawyer, politician, minister and founder of the Tamil daily newspaper Dina Thanthi. He was the founder of the We Tamils party and served as the member of the Madras Legislative Council for two terms...

, chose to support Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam during its split from DMK in 1977. He was the member of the fifth Tamil Nadu assembly. He is the father of K. P. K. Kumaran

K. P. K. Kumaran

K. P. K. Kumaran , a politician from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party, is a former member of the Parliament of India who represented Tamil Nadu in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is the son of K. P. Kandasamy and grandson of S. P. Adithanar.-External links:*...

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