<Li> Jump up ^ This column only names the chief minister's party . The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ "DMK, AIADMK pay homage to Annadurai". Archived from the original on 2005 - 03 - 04...the leader's life was cut short by cancer 3 February 1969 . </Li> <Li> ^ Jump up to: On 21 September 2001, a five - judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court of India ruled in a unanimous verdict that "a person who is convicted for a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not less than two years cannot be appointed the Chief Minister of a State under Article 164 (1) read with (4) and cannot continue to function as such". Thereby, the bench decided that "in the appointment of Ms. Jayalalithaa as Chief Minister there has been a clear infringement of a Constitutional provision and that a writ of quo warranto must issue". In effect her appointment as Chief Minister was declared null and invalid with retrospective effect . Therefore, technically, she was not the Chief Minister in the period between 14 May 2001 and 21 September 2001 (The Hindu--SC unseats Jayalalithaa as CM, Full text of the judgment from official Supreme Court site). </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ The Hindu - Karunanidhi resigns </Li>

Chief minister of tamilnadu from 1950 to 2017