4th Madras State Assembly

The assembly was elected in the general election of February 1967 and consisted of 234 members including 42 members representing scheduled castes, two members representing scheduled tribes and one nominated member. In that election, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, under the leadership of C.N. Annadurai, won a majority. Annadurai was elected Chief minister as a member of the Legislative Council, the State's upper house.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyCoMKZmRBoC&q=1967+Tamil+Nadu+election&pg=PA525 |title=Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In 36 Volumes. Tamil ... - Google Books |date=1969-01-14 |isbn=9788178353814 |access-date=2013-01-04|last1=Bhatt |first1=Shankarlal C. }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article20357.ece |title=States / Tamil Nadu : C. N. Annadurai: a timeline |newspaper=The Hindu |date=2009-09-15 |access-date=2013-01-06}} On 18 July 1967, the assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to change the name of Madras State to Tamil Nadu.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbR_LLkqdI8C&q=fourth++Assembly+of+Madras+State&pg=PA333 |title=Madras: Chennai a 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India - Google Books |isbn=9788183794688 |access-date=2013-01-04|last1=Muthiah |first1=S. |year=2008 }} This was achieved through the Madras State (Alteration of Name) Act, 1968 (Central Act 53 of 1968) which was passed by the Parliament of India and came into force on 14 January 1969, with the assembly being renamed the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. After the death of C. N. Annadurai in office, M. Karunanidhi became Chief Minister in 1969.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_jy1S-77c4C&q=1967+Tamil+Nadu+election&pg=PA157 |title=Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability - Atul Kohli - Google Books |isbn=9780521396929 |access-date=2013-01-06|last1=Kohli |first1=Atul |year=1990 }}

This assembly marked the most dramatic change in Madras State politics with the first state-government by the DMK party.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_jy1S-77c4C|title=Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability|last=Kohli|first=Atul|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1990|isbn=0-521-39692-1|pages=156–157|author-link=Atul Kohli}} Since this assembly the previously dominant Indian National Congress has never returned to power in the state.

During the tenure of C. N. Annadurai the assembly passed several key acts. Self-respect marriages, those not requiring the presence of a priest, were legalized through the Hindu Marriage (Madras Amendment) Act, 1967 which was introduced and passed during this assembly.{{cite web|url=http://indiapulse.sulekha.com/forums/coffeehouse_periyar-s-sishyas-want-an-end-to-hindu-traditional-marriages |title=Periyar's sishyas want an end to Hindu traditional marriages |publisher=Indiapulse.sulekha.com |date=2005-05-12 |access-date=2013-01-06}} In addition the three-language formula was scrapped and replaced by a "two-language" former in which "Hindi was eliminated from the curriculum, only English and Tamil were to be taught".{{cite web| url =http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/Resumes/04assly/04_02_2.pdf| title =The Madras Legislative Assembly – IV Assembly, 2nd Session, 2nd Meeting (23 January 1968)| publisher =Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly| access-date =2013-01-06| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120220050622/http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/Resumes/04assly/04_02_2.pdf| archive-date =20 February 2012}} Other measures included the sale of rice at a fixed price in the suburbs of Chennai and the sponsoring of research into the Tamil poem Tirukkuṛaḷ at Madras State universities.

The council of ministers in C. N. Annadurai's cabinet (6 March 1967 – 10 February 1969).{{cite book | year= 1968| title=India, a reference annual| publisher= Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting| page=447| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XE7VAAAAMAAJ}}

The council of ministers in Karunanidhi's cabinet (10 February 1969 – 4 January 1971).{{cite web |url=http://www.assembly.tn.gov.in/archive/Resumes/04assly/04_08.pdf|title= Fourth assembly eighth session|publisher=Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|access-date=2013-01-04}}

;Changes

• S. P. Adithanar who step down as Speaker of the Assembly and became Minister of Co-operation.

• 1967 Madras State legislative assembly election

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