DMDK Chief Vijayakanth Dies At The Age of 71 After Prolonged illness of Pneumonia
Leader Vijayakanth, one of the most popular actors of Tamil cinema and the founder of the DMDK party, was continuously hospitalized with the help of a ventilator due to severe pneumonia. DMK chief Vijayakanth died early Thursday morning in a private hospital in Chennai. DMDK leader Vijayakanth was 71 years old and DMDK party chief Vijayakanth in their family He has a wife, Premlata, and two sons, Shanmuga Pandian and Vijay Prabhakar.
DMDK Founder Vijayakanth No More With Us
Chennai: Leader Vijayakanth, one of the most popular actors of Tamil cinema and the founder of the DMDK party, was continuously hospitalized with the help of a ventilator due to severe pneumonia. DMK chief Vijayakanth died early Thursday morning in a private hospital in Chennai.
DMDK leader Vijayakanth was 71 years old and DMDK party chief Vijayakanth in their family He has a wife, Premlata, and two sons, Shanmuga Pandian and Vijay Prabhakar.
It was also announced by the DMDK party headquarters early on Thursday morning that Vijayakanth has been kept on ventilator support by the doctors of a private hospital in Chennai due to his Covid-19 test positive.
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DMDK leader Vijayakanth was admitted to a private hospital in Chennai on Tuesday. Even before this, DMDK chief Vijayakanth had been in and out of private hospitals in Chennai due to various chronic illnesses. DMDK leader Vijayakanth had also traveled to the United States of America for medical treatment of his serious illnesses in the year 2017. In the US, DMDK chief Vijayakanth underwent an organ transplant. In the month of June 2022, all the toes of DMDK chief Vijaykant were also amputated due to severe diabetes for a long time.
Vijayakanth, born Vijayraj in the house of Alargarswami and Anandal of Madurai, rose to prominence in the Tamil film industry by becoming a star along with Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan. Vijayakanth’s simple nature earned him the admiration of a large number of fans, fans have also honoured Vijayakanth by the nickname of ‘Karuppu MGR’ as well as ‘Puraichi Kalaignar’. After Vijayakanth’s 100 th superhit film ‘Captain Prabhakaran’, all the supporters made Vijayakanth famous by lovingly addressing him as ‘Captain’.
Tamil cinema’s star actor Vijayakanth had made his place among the fans by portraying a revolutionary youth with great beauty with his simplicity. Tamil cinema star actor Vijayakanth was also honored with many awards, including the Filmfare Award for Vijayakanth for the Tamil film ‘Amman Kovil Keezhakale’ in 1986 and the Tamil Filmfare Award for his brilliant acting in the Tamil film ‘Seenthura Poov’ in the year 1988. Vijayakanth was also awarded by the Government of Tamil Nadu. Tamil cinema star Vijayakanth had also created history by becoming the only actor in the Tamil film industry to have made a special place for himself in the hearts of fans by playing lead roles in eighteen films of Tamil cinema in the year 1984.
The remake of Vijayakanth’s Tamil cinema commercial blockbuster ‘Sattam Oru Iruttarai’ in Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada as well as Hindi language was liked the most by the fans. Tamil cinema star Vijayakanth’s films like ‘Vaidegi Kathirunthal’, ‘Amman Kovil Keezhakale’, ‘Oomai Vizhigal’, ‘Kuliyakaran’, ‘Uzhavan Magan’, ‘Poonthutta Kavalakaran’, ‘Seenthura Poov’ have helped him in his career spanning over three decades of Tamil cinema star Vijayakanth’s many superhit films were some of his best.
Under Vijayakanth’s chairmanship, fund-raising events were also organized abroad to clear the ever-increasing debt of the prestigious South Indian Artists Association, which was then headed by the late Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M.G. Ramachandran.
DMDK chief Vijayakanth, known among the public for all his philanthropic activities, entered the electoral fray in 2005 and transformed all his fan clubs into Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam. In 2011, after DMDK chief Vijayakanth formed an alliance with Jayalalitha’s party AIADMK, Vijayakanth’s party DMDK also saw tremendous growth in electoral politics. Tamil cinema star Vijayakanth’s DMDK party had established tremendous dominance by winning 29 out of forty seats. DMDK chief Vijayakanth himself had created a brilliant image as the leader of the opposition by contesting the elections, due to which the Dravidian chief Party DMK was placed at the third position.
Even as an NDA alliance in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Vijaykant campaigned extensively for PM candidate Narendra Modi, which helped Vijaykant establish his identity as a national leader among the public at the last moment. DMDK chief Vijayakanth, speaking at the parliamentary party meeting soon after his election, was praised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his election campaign in the entire Tamil Nadu state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that “DMDK chief Vijaykant is my best friend.”
DMDK chief Vijayakanth had also joined hands with the four-party alliance People’s Welfare Front and presented himself to the public as the chief ministerial candidate in the 2016 Tamil Nadu assembly elections. Vijayakanth was last seen attending a public event on December 13 at the key DMDK General Counseling meeting to be held at Thiruverkadu, near Chennai. Vijaykant, with the help of his colleagues, sat on a wheelchair and remained present in the hall for about half an hour.
When the council unanimously appointed DMK chief Vijayakanth’s wife and DMDK treasurer Premlata as the general secretary of the DMDK party.
The DMDK party is one of the important regional parties recognized by the Election Commission in Tamil Nadu.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi also expressed deep condolences on the demise of DMDK chief Vijaykant –
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