Janaki Ramachandran biography
Date of birth : 1923-11-30
Date of death : 1996-05-19
Birthplace : Vaikom, Kerala
Nationality : Indian
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-07-21
Credited as : Film actress, and politician,
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She was a successful actress and starred in more than 25 movies including Velaikari, and Aiyiram Thalaivangiya Aboorva Chintamani. She starred opposite M. G. Ramachandran in many films. She married M. G. Ramachandran. When M.G.Ramachandran died in 1987, she succeeded him as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the Leader of the AIADMK party (which later split into two factions).
Janaki Ramachandran became Chief minister in January 1988 after her husband's death, but the government lasted only 24 days, the shortest in the history of Tamil Nadu. Her ministry won the vote of confidence of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly in January 1988 but the Central Government under the late Rajiv Gandhi used Article 356 of the Constitution of India to dismiss her government. Her party was defeated in the next elections held in 1989 and she quit politics after the unification of the two factions of theAll India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
She died of a cardiac arrest on 19 May 1996. Janaki Ramachandran gifted her property in Avvai Shanmugham Salai (Lloyds Road) to house the headquarters of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party in 1986. She also willed her property in Arcot Street in T.Nagar to set up the Dr.MGR Memorial House in 1988. She was the founder chairman of The Satya Educational Charitable Society managing many free educational institutions in Chennai.
She gifted property worth many million dollars for the establishment of educational and charitable institutions in Tamil nadu. She was also instrumental in setting up the Janaki Ramachandran Educational Charitable Trust which is currently administring one institution. Most of the lands in which the educational Charitable institutions are situated are worth millions of dollars and are her gifts to charity.
