Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin[a] (born 1 March 1953) is an Indian politician who has served as the eighth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu since 2021. He became president of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 28 August 2018, after serving as the party's working president from January 2017 to August 2018. Born in 1953, Stalin is the third son of former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi. He completed his education at Presidency College in Chennai in 1973. He began his political career in the late 1960s and was elected to DMK's general committee in 1973. He was jailed during the Emergency in 1976. He became the secretary of the party's youth wing in 1982, a post he held for more than four decades. He served as the 45th mayor of Chennai from 1996 to 2002. He has been elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly eight times, and served as the state's first deputy chief minister from 2009 to 2011. Stalin is married to Durga, and their son Udhayanidhi currently serves as the state's deputy chief minister. In 2009, Anna University conferred an honorary doctorate on Stalin. In 2025, The Indian Express named him as India's 23rd most powerful personality. Udhayanidhi Stalin (born 27 November 1977) is a DMK politician who has served as the third Deputy chief minister of Tamil Nadu since 2024. Formerly a film producer, distributor and actor, he is the son of M. K. Stalin, the eighth and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He is the third and the youngest to hold the position of deputy chief minister of the state. He has served as the minister of youth welfare and sports development since December 2022. Born in 1977, Udhayanidhi attended the Don Bosco school and later received a degree in commerce from Loyola College in Chennai. Prior to his career as a politician, he acted in Tamil films, and also served as a producer and distributor of films in Tamil Nadu. In 2019, Udhayanidhi entered into politics after being appointed as the secretary of the youth wing of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, led by his father Stalin. In 2021, he was elected as a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency.

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