Not many would know the attrocities of Karunanidhi during his first tenure after succeeeding Anna.
Ask Trichy people about Clive Hostel incident, Citizens of Chidambaram will tell you how he had a student Udayakumar of Annamalai University shot by the police just because he protested against the university decision to confer a doctorate on karunanidhi. He threatened the boy's father to testify that the corpse was no that of his son!!
Ask Palayamkottai people about a similar incident in St. Xavier's College.
Ask the people of Salem about the DK procession in 1971 that took place with MK's blessings in which Hindu gods were garlanded with chappal!!!
Ask the residents of Gopalapuram in chennai about the attrocities of his son and the way he used to misbehave with womenfolk in public places!
There was none to protest then at least until Emergency when his illustrious son and the late nephew were given special treatment by the aggrieved TN police in 1976.