Chennai, Aug. 7 -- Rich tributes were paid to late DMK Patriarch and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on the occasion of his seventh death anniversary today.

Chief Minister and DMK President led the state in taking out a silent and solemn procession to Mr Karunanidhi's memorial on the Marina beach front.

After garlanding the statue of the late leader at the Omandurar Government Estate campus, Mr Stalin, accompanied by MPs, Ministers, MLAs and senior leaders--with some of them clad in black shirts--took out a silent procession to Mr Karunanidhi's memorial where he paid floral tributes.

Elsewhere in the state, DMK district secretaries, functionaries and cadres paid rich tributes to the late leader to mark the occasion. UNI...