{"id":6800,"date":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/16-07-2022\/k-kamraj\/"},"modified":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"k-kamraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/16-07-2022\/k-kamraj","title":{"rendered":"K Kamraj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Recently the birth anniversary of Shri K. Kamaraj was observed.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>About Kumaraswami Kamaraj (15 July 1903 \u2013 2 October 1975)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Popularly known as <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Kamarajar<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Widely acknowledged as the &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Kingmaker<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">&#8221; in Indian politics<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He was the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>founder and the president<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Indian National Congress (Organisation)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Served as the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Chief Minister of Madras<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> State (Tamil Nadu).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Awarded with India&#8217;s highest civilian honour, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Bharat Ratna<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, posthumously in 1976.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Known for his <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>simplicity<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>integrity<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Contributions<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He made an indelible contribution to <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>India\u2019s freedom struggle<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Made a mark as a <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>compassionate administrator.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He worked hard to <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>alleviate poverty and human suffering.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">He also focused on <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>improving health and education.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">K Kamraj was responsible for bringing <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>free education <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">to the disadvantaged and introduced the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>free Midday Meal Scheme.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><strong>Source: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1841609\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:\"Book Antiqua\",serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">PIB<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Recently the birth anniversary of Shri K. Kamaraj was observed.\u00a0 About Kumaraswami Kamaraj (15 July 1903 \u2013 2 October 1975) Popularly known as Kamarajar\u00a0 Widely acknowledged as the &#8220;Kingmaker&#8221; in Indian politics He was the founder and the president of the Indian National Congress (Organisation) Served as the Chief Minister of Madras State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[25,81,87],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-gs1","tag-modern-indian-history","tag-personalities"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/1396816Screenshot_20220716-221345_One UI Home.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}