Kamarajar Birthday 2022: Top 7 Quotes of the late Indian independence activist to mark his birth anniversary

Kamarajar Birthday 2022: Kamarajar or Kumaraswamy Kamarajar was a famous freedom fighter and politician from the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Kamarajar was the second Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and served in this position for 10 years.

According to Wikipedia, Kamaraj was born on 15 July 1903 in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. His initial name was Kamakshi Kumaraswamy Nadar but later he came to be known as K Kamarajar. Kamaraj’s father was a businessman, but his untimely death put his family in trouble. He was known as the ‘King Maker’ in Indian politics. After the death of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal, the concern about the new Prime Minister of India raised then Kamaraj came forward to solve it. After independence, on 13 April 1954, Kamaraj reluctantly accepted the post of Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the state got a leader who was going to take many revolutionary steps for it.

Kamaraj made many important decisions for the education sector. He made arrangements that no village should remain without a primary school. He vowed to remove illiteracy and introduced free and compulsory education till class 11th. He came up with a plan to provide ‘mid-day meals’ to poor children in schools. He was known as the ‘Gandhi of the South’. Kamaraj was also posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, in 1976. Kamarajar died in Chennai on 2 October 1975.

Below are the Top 7 Quotes of the late Indian independence activist to mark his birth anniversary.

Top 7 Quotes of the late Indian independence activist to mark his birth anniversary for Kamarajar Birthday 2022

• “Educating women is to educate a family – Kamarajar“

• The most cynical thing in the world is the use of others for self-interest. – Kamarajar

• “Any power should act responsibly with an emotional response. The lack of emotional power will not prevail. – Kamarajar“

• “The man who does not work for the progress of our country is equal to the corpse. – Kamarajar“

• “The caste will not be destroyed by mixed mental food and marriage. The caste is only a man’s mind when it comes to revolutionary changes. – Kamarajar“

• “Not all people have special forces, not just disadvantages. – Kamarajar“

•  It is a bad thing to talk too much about how much talk is bad. It’s a bad thing to talk less. – Kamarajar