Chennai: The DMK, which owes its raison d’etre to its opposition to Brahmin hegemony, has for the first time in its 75-year-old history, appointed a member of the Brahmin community to a party organisational post.

DMK general secretary Duraimurugan, in an announcement in the party mouthpiece Murasoli on Friday announced that V Maitreyan, former Rajya Sabha MP, who had made his political debut in the BJP, was being appointed vice president of the DMK educationists’ wing.

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Maitreyan had joined the DMK just three months ago. An oncologist by qualification, Maitreyan was once the BJP’s state vice president. He had later joined the AIADMK, where Jayalalithaa nominated him to the Rajya Sabha and

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