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==Political career== | ==Political career== | ||
Rajendar founded the [[ | Rajendar founded the [[Thayaga Marumalarchi Kazhagam]] party in 1991 after he had been expelled from the [[Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]] (DMK) party.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13462493 |title=Tamil film artiste launches new party|date=26 April 2004|work=Sify |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322040940/http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13462493|archive-date=22 March 2007}}</ref>In 1996, after [[Vaiko]]'s departure from the DMK and the formation of [[Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]], Rajendar's TMK merged with the DMK. Rajendar left the DMK again in 2004, to form the [[All India Latchiya Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam]].<ref name="frontline3">{{cite web | ||
|first =T. S. | |||
|last = Subramanian | |||
| url =http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2220/stories/20051007003203900.htm | |||
| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060427114343/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2220/stories/20051007003203900.htm | |||
| url-status =usurped | |||
| archive-date =27 April 2006 | |||
| title = Another actor in politics | |||
| work = [[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] | |||
| publisher = [[The Hindu Group]] | |||
| date = 7 October 2005 | |||
| accessdate = 20 January 2010 | |||
}}</ref><ref name="frontline4">{{cite web | |||
|first =T. S. | |||
|last = Subramanian | |||
| url = http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2115/stories/20040730003803600.htm | |||
| title = The celluloid connection | |||
| work = [[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] | |||
| publisher = [[The Hindu Group]] | |||
| date = 30 July 2004 | |||
| accessdate = 20 January 2010 | |||
}}</ref><ref name ="results">[http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-Tamil%20Nadu91.pdf 1991 Tamil Nadu Election Results, Election Commission of India] ''accessed'' 19 April 2009</ref> Before expulsion, he was the propaganda secretary of DMK and was elected from [[Park Town (State Assembly Constituency)|Park Town constituency]] in the [[1996 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election|1996 Assembly polls]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/t-rajendar-rejoins-dmk/article5510667.ece|title=T. Rajendar rejoins DMK|date=28 December 2013|access-date=16 July 2018|website=Thehindu.com}}</ref> He further supported the [[AIADMK]] in the [[2006 Tamil Nadu state assembly election|2006 Assembly elections]]. After those 2006 elections, the DMK came back to power and he was made vice-chairman of the Small Savings Scheme. He subsequently quit the post.<ref name = tr/> | |||
==Filmography== | ==Filmography== | ||