How a Brahmin woman was elected the Mayor of Madras on DMK ticket in 1971
For the first time in its 76-year-old history, the DMK recently appointed V. Maitreyan, a Brahmin, to an organisational post. The former Rajya Sabha Member joined the party in August after having been associated with the BJP and the AIADMK. This development in a party, which fought for the uplift of the backward classes and the oppressed…