K. P. Kandasamy was a politician from the

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n state of

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and founder of ''

Dinakaran Dinakaran is a Tamil daily newspaper distributed in Tamil Nadu, India. It was founded by K. P. Kandasamy in 1977 and is currently owned by media conglomerate Sun Group's- Sun Network.''Dinakaran'' is the second largest circulated Tamil daily ...

'', a

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daily newspaper. He founded Dinakaran in support of

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

(DMK) when his father-in-law,

S. P. Adithanar Si. Balasubramania Athithan (also known as Si. Ba. Adithanar) 27 September 1905 – 24 May 1981), popularly called as "Adithanar", was an Indian lawyer, politician, minister and founder of the Tamil daily newspaper ''Dina Thanthi''. He was th ...

, 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.

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