He started as a basic member with no oratorical skills or influence in print or media, yet he played a pivotal role in dislodging Indian National Congress from its strong hold on Thanjavur.
A. Y. S. Parisutha Nadar had held the Thanjavur Constituency for three consecutive terms under Indian National Congress banner.
A great philanthropist and reformer, A. Y. S. Parisutha Nadar seemed irreplaceable, until Natarajan representing DMK set to work for the welfare of the constituency.
[citation needed]W. P. A. Soundarapandian Nadar was a close confidant of Periyar; C. N. Annadurai; E. V. K. Sampath; V. R. Nedunchezhiyan; Mathialagan, Nanjil Manoharan; actor M.G Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR) who shared a special bond and respect for Thanjai SN or Thanjai Natarajan Natarajan was MLA from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam for three times.
S. Natarajan was on ethe earliest Income Tax payers in Tamilandu, running a very successful Construction company - taking up government project to lay Highways across Tamilnadu.
Periyar was convinced that individuals and movements that undertake the task of eradicating the social evils in the Indian sub-continent have to pursue the goal with devotion and dedication without deviating from the path and with uncompromising zeal.
Though the DMK split from the Dravidar Kazhagam, the organisation made efforts to carry on Periyar's Self-Respect Movement to villagers and urban students.
The DMK advocated the thesis that the Tamil language was much richer than Sanskrit and Hindi in content, and thus was a key which opened the door to subjects to be learned.
[citation needed] The Dravidar Kazhagam continued to counter Brahminism, Indo-Aryan propaganda, and uphold the Dravidians' right of self-determination.
[citation needed] Against C. Rajagopalachari (or Rajaji), the then Chief Minister of Madras State, for introducing a new educational system that indirectly encouraged traditional caste-based occupations called Kulak kalvit thittam Against renaming Kallakkudi to Dalmiyapuram as the name Dalmiyapuram symbolised north Indian domination.
Sensing an uprising, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru assured in the Parliament that English would continue to be the official language of India, as long as non-Hindi speaking people desire.
DMK gave up the plan of showing black flags and Annadurai appealed to the Union Government to bring about a constitutional amendment incorporating the assurance.
[citation needed] Robert Hardgrave Jr, professor of humanities, government and Asian studies, suggests that the elements contributing to the riots were not instigated by DMK or Leftists or even the industrialists, as the Congress government of the state suggested, but were genuine frustrations and discontentment which lay beneath the surface of the people of the state.
[citation needed] With violence surging, Annadurai asked the students to forfeit the protests, but some DMK leaders like Karunanidhi kept the agitations going.
[citation needed] It was during the period of his Chief Ministership that the Second World conference was conducted on a grand scale on 3 January 1968.
Since after people who knows politics started calling him as King maker He died on 23 February 1984 during his third term in office.