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Anti Aryan Anti Brahamin DRAVID Movement Undermined as Film Industry takes over Political Lead. Film Goes Blockbuster and Dravid Movement Unermined Under the Sandles of the Brahamin Heroines as Family Hegemony Kills DRAVIDNADU!
Family Infight Saga flavoured with Top to Bottom Graft, Greed and Betrayal and outright Co Option into the Brahaminical zionsit hegemony in New Delhi has Killed the Movement as Sub Caste Politics has taken over all round.
It is quite Disappointing as we the Mulnivasi Majority Masses enslaved in the Manusmriti Rule having lost Identity as well as Nationality,totally HINDUISED, have to look Southwards simply to trace our History and Culture without any OPTION!
I have been interacting with the educated enlightened People of all the four South Indian states, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Andhra!
All of them are concerned with Brahaminisation of dravid Movement as well as Dravidnadu as the legacy of Periyar, Naraynguru and Ayyankali has been Betrayed by the same people who gained Political Power with the assertive Dravid Identity, specifically Tamil Indigenous Aboriginal Identity in Tamilnadu!
I am sorry NOT to have learnt any of the south Indian language and fail to interact with the Masses who Never know any other language other than their mother tongue just because of the Assertive Non Aryan Identity! I have been in Rameshwaram and Madurai but could not visit any of the Tamil Refugee Camp just because of Language Problem.
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Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M.K. Alagiri has not quit the central government over reported differences within Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK over the 2G spectrum scandal, party sources said Wednesday.But Differences appear to have cropped up in DMK's first family with union minister M K Alagiri, elder son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, voicing displeasure over party affairs and prominence given to younger sibling Kanimozhi.
Upset over recent developments, including DMK allegedly shielding former telecom minister A Raja on the 2G Spectrum issue, Alagiri is understood to have conveyed to Karunanidhi during their January 2 meeting that Raja should be stripped of the party post of 'propaganda secretary' immediately so it could distance itself from the scam.
He is angry over the reported telephonic talks by state information technology minister Poongothai with corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, in which she had spoken against him, informed sources said.
Since Poongothai is known as a protege of Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP, he is believed to have told Karunanidhi that action should be taken against both of them.
He also expressed his desire to quit the union cabinet as he was ill at ease in Delhi because of the language problem and would like to concentrate more in state politics, sources said.
DMK officially has neither denied nor confirmed the reports.
Amid reports of factional trouble in the DMK, senior party leader T.R. Baalu met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Wednesday.
'It was a courtesy call. I conveyed (party president) M. Karunanidhi's New Year greetings to the Congress president,' Baalu told reporters after the meeting at Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence.
Baalu said his meeting with Gandhi had nothing to do with reports from Chennai that DMK leader and central Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri had submitted his resignation from the government to party chief Karunanidhi.
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The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity amid speculation of an internal war in the state's first family over the scam that has enveloped the DMK like no other issue.
Tamil Nadu had been agog with rumours that Alagiri had quit both the central government and the post of organizing secretary (south) -- which makes him one of the most powerful men in the DMK.
Neither DMK nor Alagiri were ready to comment on the issue. But a senior party leader told IANS: 'Both didn't happen.'
Sources close to Alagiri asserted he had not resigned from the central ministry.
According to a party leader, normally resignations are submitted to the party headquarters or to its general secretary.
He added: 'It is only the chief minister who knows the actual situation on the resignation issue. But yesterday he was in a jovial mood, giving no indication of any crisis.'
Alagiri reportedly wants disgraced former central communications minister A. Raja to be stripped of his post of propaganda secretary in the DMK so that the party can distance itself from the spectrum scam.
Raja is at the heart of the scandal. He has been accused of giving away second- generation spectrum at below-market price, causing huge losses to the government.
Raja has denied the charge, but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has interrogated him at length over his involvement in the scandal. The development has embarrassed the party.
Alagiri has resisted coming to the support of Raja or Karunanidhi's daughter - and his cousin - M.K. Kanimozhi, who too has been linked to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
Radia has been taped campaigning for Raja to be the communications minister in Manmohan Singh's cabinet after he became prime minister for a second time in 2009.
The DMK recently launched a statewide campaign defending the spectrum allocation policy of the central government. But Alagiri has stayed away from it.
Alagiri is also said to be upset with Tamil Nadu IT Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna, who has been taped referring to Alagiri in poor light during her telephonic conversations with Radia.
Alagiri is the eldest son of Karunanidhi. Despite repeated attempts, IANS could not reach him on telephone.
Chennai: It's once again open war within the DMK's first family - four months before Tamil Nadu votes.
Party chief M Karunanidhi's son, MK Alagiri has reportedly submitted his resignation from the Cabinet and as Organising Secretary for the DMK to his father. Mr Alagiri is Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Mr Alagiri is reportedly demanding that his father sack A Raja, at the centre of the 2G Telecom scam, from his party position as "Propaganda Secretary." Mr Alagiri has also said he wants to concentrate on state politics, turf that had been reserved for his brother, MK Stalin, by his father.
Mr Raja was forced to resign as Telecom Minister in November after the government's auditor blamed him for costing the government upto 1.76 lakh crores by deliberately mishandling the allocation of mobile licenses in 2008.
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Mr Alagiri's resignation from his DMK office is being seen as a pressure static designed to land his supporters more seats for the Tamil Nadu elections.
Sources say Mr Alagiri's resignation letter was submitted last evening to his father, and that the Prime Minister's office has yet to receive it.
He has been upset with his step-sister, Kanimozhi, who is a Rajya Sabha MP. Transcripts of phone conversations with PR tycoon Niira Radia reveal a Kanimozhi protégé and state minister Poongothai making unflattering remarks about Mr Alagiri. Radia's phone was tapped in 2008 and 2009 as part of an income tax inquiry. Her conversations with industrialists, politicians and bureaucrats have become a vital part of the investigation into the 2G scam. Radia is accused of lobbying for Mr Raja to return as Telecom Minister in 2009 after the UPA won the general elections. She reportedly then pushed for Mr Raja to favour her clients who wanted mobile licenses.
Mr Alagiri's rivalry with his brother over who would be their father's successor as DMK Chief is also common knowledge. Mr Stalin is seen as his father's choice for taking over not just as DMK head but as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Mr Alagiri was deputed to the union cabinet by his father in the hope of creating some distance between his warring sons. However, those close to Mr Alagiri says he has been desperate to return to Tamil Nadu to play a heavyweight role in state politics. In his note to his father, he has allegedly said that his discomfort with Hindi makes him an uneasy fit at the Centre.
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In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said: 'By making this assertion, Karunanidhi was not expressing his concern for the poor in the state. He was only admitting that he does not have any scheme for the eradication of poverty.'
She charged that Karunanidhi wanted the poor in the state to remain poor so that he could keep bribing them with sops and freebies to buy their votes.
Jayalalithaa said arbitrarily giving away freebies to the poor without strengthening the basic infrastructure was like printing currency notes without a corresponding back-up in gold.
'Today, the situation in Tamil Nadu is such that while rice is available for the poor at Re.1 a kg through the public distribution, onions cost as much as Rs.90 a kg. All vegetables cost over Rs.50 a kg while pulses used for sambhar cost close to Rs.100 a kg,' she said.
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Hitting out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for announcing that freebies will be distributed as long as poverty existed in the state, AIA DMK chief Jayalalithaa today accused him of "reinforcing the rich-poor divide".
Karunanidhi's statement was an admission by the DMK patriarch that he does not have any scheme for eradication of poverty, Jayalalithaa said.
"By making this assertion, Karunanidhi is not expressing his concern for the poor and downtrodden in the state. On the contrary he was only publicly reinforcing the rich-poor divide," she said in a statement here.
The chief minister is trying to make the people a society of parasites, dependent on freebies, doles and sops by making such an announcement, she claimed.
By doing so, Karunanidhi was "only admitting that he does not have any scheme for the eradication of poverty.In fact, he wants the poor in Tamil Nadu to remain poor. Only then can he keep bribing them with sops and freebies to buy their votes," she charged.
Karunanidhi had on January one announced that his government will continue to implement populist schemes and offer freebies as long as poor people existed in the state.
Jayalalithaa termed such freebies (schemes including free colour TVs, insurance and housing schemes) as 'arbitrary' offers that did not strengthen basic infrastructure.
"Arbitrarily giving away freebies without strengthening the basic infrastructure is like printing currency notes without a corresponding back-up in gold. It comes cheap and is not even worth the paper it is printed on," she said.
She said though rice was being provided at one rupee per kg at PDS shops, prices of other commodities including vegetables and pulses were soaring.
While Kerala was all set to construct a new dam in place of the Mullaperiar, Tamil Nadu will not get even a drop of water, the AIADMK chief said.
A substantial part of the Tamil race has been annihilated in Sri Lanka, she said.
"Nearly a lakh Tamil people still live precariously behind barbed wire fences like refugees in their own land. But Karunanidhi sent a team of MPs along with his daughter (Kanimozhi) and got them to certify that all was well in Sri Lanka. The day of reckoning is not far off," Jayalalithaa said in an apparent reference to Assembly elections scheduled in May this year.
Jaganmohan files application with EC to form new party
Former Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today approached the Election Commission with an application for registration of his yet-to-be-launched political party.
Y V Subba Reddy, a close relative of Jagan, filed the application before the commission today and said the process is expected to take three weeks.
Asked about the name of the party, Subba Reddy refused to divulge it but said it will have the name of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the father of Jagan.
"I cannot say what the name will be but it will have the name of late YSR. The process is expected to end in sometime after which the name of the party will be made public," he told reporters.
Jaganmohan Reddy, who had revolted against the Congress leadership and left the party, had last week said he intends to seek re-election from Kadapa Lok Sabha seat and was not keen on destabilising the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh.
He said he has fast-tracked the process to register and launch his new political party before the byelections for Kadapa and Pulivendula assembly constituencies are announced.
The seats were vacated by him and his mother Vijayalaxmi after they quit Congress on November 29 last year alleging "humiliation" by the party high command.
Jagan has also claimed that he has no intention to destabilise the Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh as he is preparing to face the Assembly elections in 2014.
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Alagiri quits Cabinet, wants Raja sacked from DMK posts: Sources
Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M.K. Alagiri has not quit the central government over reported differences within Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK over the 2G spectrum scandal, party sources said Wednesday.
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Anti Aryan Anti Brahamin DRAVID Movement Undermined as Film Industry takes over Political Lead. Film Goes Blockbuster and Dravid Movement Unermined Under the Sandles of the Brahamin Heroines as Family Hegemony Kills DRAVIDNADU!
Family Infight Saga flavoured with Top to Bottom Graft, Greed and Betrayal and outright Co Option into the Brahaminical zionsit hegemony in New Delhi has Killed the Movement as Sub Caste Politics has taken over all round.
It is quite Disappointing as we the Mulnivasi Majority Masses enslaved in the Manusmriti Rule having lost Identity as well as Nationality,totally HINDUISED, have to look Southwards simply to trace our History and Culture without any OPTION!
I have been interacting with the educated enlightened People of all the four South Indian states, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamilnadu and Andhra!
All of them are concerned with Brahaminisation of dravid Movement as well as Dravidnadu as the legacy of Periyar, Naraynguru and Ayyankali has been Betrayed by the same people who gained Political Power with the assertive Dravid Identity, specifically Tamil Indigenous Aboriginal Identity in Tamilnadu!
I am sorry NOT to have learnt any of the south Indian language and fail to interact with the Masses who Never know any other language other than their mother tongue just because of the Assertive Non Aryan Identity! I have been in Rameshwaram and Madurai but could not visit any of the Tamil Refugee Camp just because of Language Problem.
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Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister M.K. Alagiri has not quit the central government over reported differences within Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK over the 2G spectrum scandal, party sources said Wednesday.But Differences appear to have cropped up in DMK's first family with union minister M K Alagiri, elder son of DMK chief M Karunanidhi, voicing displeasure over party affairs and prominence given to younger sibling Kanimozhi.
Upset over recent developments, including DMK allegedly shielding former telecom minister A Raja on the 2G Spectrum issue, Alagiri is understood to have conveyed to Karunanidhi during their January 2 meeting that Raja should be stripped of the party post of 'propaganda secretary' immediately so it could distance itself from the scam.
He is angry over the reported telephonic talks by state information technology minister Poongothai with corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, in which she had spoken against him, informed sources said.
Since Poongothai is known as a protege of Kanimozhi, a Rajya Sabha MP, he is believed to have told Karunanidhi that action should be taken against both of them.
He also expressed his desire to quit the union cabinet as he was ill at ease in Delhi because of the language problem and would like to concentrate more in state politics, sources said.
DMK officially has neither denied nor confirmed the reports.
Amid reports of factional trouble in the DMK, senior party leader T.R. Baalu met Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Wednesday.
'It was a courtesy call. I conveyed (party president) M. Karunanidhi's New Year greetings to the Congress president,' Baalu told reporters after the meeting at Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence.
Baalu said his meeting with Gandhi had nothing to do with reports from Chennai that DMK leader and central Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers M.K. Alagiri had submitted his resignation from the government to party chief Karunanidhi.
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The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity amid speculation of an internal war in the state's first family over the scam that has enveloped the DMK like no other issue.
Tamil Nadu had been agog with rumours that Alagiri had quit both the central government and the post of organizing secretary (south) -- which makes him one of the most powerful men in the DMK.
Neither DMK nor Alagiri were ready to comment on the issue. But a senior party leader told IANS: 'Both didn't happen.'
Sources close to Alagiri asserted he had not resigned from the central ministry.
According to a party leader, normally resignations are submitted to the party headquarters or to its general secretary.
He added: 'It is only the chief minister who knows the actual situation on the resignation issue. But yesterday he was in a jovial mood, giving no indication of any crisis.'
Alagiri reportedly wants disgraced former central communications minister A. Raja to be stripped of his post of propaganda secretary in the DMK so that the party can distance itself from the spectrum scam.
Raja is at the heart of the scandal. He has been accused of giving away second- generation spectrum at below-market price, causing huge losses to the government.
Raja has denied the charge, but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has interrogated him at length over his involvement in the scandal. The development has embarrassed the party.
Alagiri has resisted coming to the support of Raja or Karunanidhi's daughter - and his cousin - M.K. Kanimozhi, who too has been linked to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
Radia has been taped campaigning for Raja to be the communications minister in Manmohan Singh's cabinet after he became prime minister for a second time in 2009.
The DMK recently launched a statewide campaign defending the spectrum allocation policy of the central government. But Alagiri has stayed away from it.
Alagiri is also said to be upset with Tamil Nadu IT Minister Poongothai Aladi Aruna, who has been taped referring to Alagiri in poor light during her telephonic conversations with Radia.
Alagiri is the eldest son of Karunanidhi. Despite repeated attempts, IANS could not reach him on telephone.
Alagiri quits Cabinet, wants Raja sacked from DMK posts: Sources
Sam Daniel, Updated: January 05, 2011 19:02 ISTChennai: It's once again open war within the DMK's first family - four months before Tamil Nadu votes.
Party chief M Karunanidhi's son, MK Alagiri has reportedly submitted his resignation from the Cabinet and as Organising Secretary for the DMK to his father. Mr Alagiri is Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers.
Mr Alagiri is reportedly demanding that his father sack A Raja, at the centre of the 2G Telecom scam, from his party position as "Propaganda Secretary." Mr Alagiri has also said he wants to concentrate on state politics, turf that had been reserved for his brother, MK Stalin, by his father.
Mr Raja was forced to resign as Telecom Minister in November after the government's auditor blamed him for costing the government upto 1.76 lakh crores by deliberately mishandling the allocation of mobile licenses in 2008.
Rediff.comTwitterNDTV SocialLive MessengerGmail BuzzPrintMr Alagiri's resignation from his DMK office is being seen as a pressure static designed to land his supporters more seats for the Tamil Nadu elections.
Sources say Mr Alagiri's resignation letter was submitted last evening to his father, and that the Prime Minister's office has yet to receive it.
He has been upset with his step-sister, Kanimozhi, who is a Rajya Sabha MP. Transcripts of phone conversations with PR tycoon Niira Radia reveal a Kanimozhi protégé and state minister Poongothai making unflattering remarks about Mr Alagiri. Radia's phone was tapped in 2008 and 2009 as part of an income tax inquiry. Her conversations with industrialists, politicians and bureaucrats have become a vital part of the investigation into the 2G scam. Radia is accused of lobbying for Mr Raja to return as Telecom Minister in 2009 after the UPA won the general elections. She reportedly then pushed for Mr Raja to favour her clients who wanted mobile licenses.
Mr Alagiri's rivalry with his brother over who would be their father's successor as DMK Chief is also common knowledge. Mr Stalin is seen as his father's choice for taking over not just as DMK head but as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Mr Alagiri was deputed to the union cabinet by his father in the hope of creating some distance between his warring sons. However, those close to Mr Alagiri says he has been desperate to return to Tamil Nadu to play a heavyweight role in state politics. In his note to his father, he has allegedly said that his discomfort with Hindi makes him an uneasy fit at the Centre.
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Jayalalithaa faults Karunanidhi on freebies for poor
AIADMK general secretary J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday came down heavily on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's remarks of continuing with freebies for the poor as long as they were there.In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said: 'By making this assertion, Karunanidhi was not expressing his concern for the poor in the state. He was only admitting that he does not have any scheme for the eradication of poverty.'
She charged that Karunanidhi wanted the poor in the state to remain poor so that he could keep bribing them with sops and freebies to buy their votes.
Jayalalithaa said arbitrarily giving away freebies to the poor without strengthening the basic infrastructure was like printing currency notes without a corresponding back-up in gold.
'Today, the situation in Tamil Nadu is such that while rice is available for the poor at Re.1 a kg through the public distribution, onions cost as much as Rs.90 a kg. All vegetables cost over Rs.50 a kg while pulses used for sambhar cost close to Rs.100 a kg,' she said.
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C.N. Annadurai (1909-1969), popularly called 'Anna,' remains one of the celebrated leaders of Tamil Nadu. He founded the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in 1949 at a time when the State had at least two established parties – Congress and the Communist Party of India – with several stalwarts. Aided by several factors, the DMK, in no time, became a principal political force in the State and it continues to be so for over 50 years.
In 1967, Annadurai came into wider prominence when his party ousted the Congress from power. He was Chief Minister barely for two years but he is still remembered for his qualities – simplicity, concern for the poor and willingness for reconciliation.
Some facets of the personality of Annadurai and the historical context in which he emerged as a central figure have been captured by R. Kannan in his biography in English, "Anna – the life and times of C.N. Annadurai." Writer Charukesi has translated the work into Tamil. The translator had to get the excerpts, originally spoken or written in Tamil, from over 100 books.
The Tamil version has been brought out by Vikatan Publishers.
Hitting out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for announcing that freebies will be distributed as long as poverty existed in the state, AIA DMK chief Jayalalithaa today accused him of "reinforcing the rich-poor divide".
Karunanidhi's statement was an admission by the DMK patriarch that he does not have any scheme for eradication of poverty, Jayalalithaa said.
"By making this assertion, Karunanidhi is not expressing his concern for the poor and downtrodden in the state. On the contrary he was only publicly reinforcing the rich-poor divide," she said in a statement here.
The chief minister is trying to make the people a society of parasites, dependent on freebies, doles and sops by making such an announcement, she claimed.
By doing so, Karunanidhi was "only admitting that he does not have any scheme for the eradication of poverty.In fact, he wants the poor in Tamil Nadu to remain poor. Only then can he keep bribing them with sops and freebies to buy their votes," she charged.
Karunanidhi had on January one announced that his government will continue to implement populist schemes and offer freebies as long as poor people existed in the state.
Jayalalithaa termed such freebies (schemes including free colour TVs, insurance and housing schemes) as 'arbitrary' offers that did not strengthen basic infrastructure.
"Arbitrarily giving away freebies without strengthening the basic infrastructure is like printing currency notes without a corresponding back-up in gold. It comes cheap and is not even worth the paper it is printed on," she said.
She said though rice was being provided at one rupee per kg at PDS shops, prices of other commodities including vegetables and pulses were soaring.
While Kerala was all set to construct a new dam in place of the Mullaperiar, Tamil Nadu will not get even a drop of water, the AIADMK chief said.
A substantial part of the Tamil race has been annihilated in Sri Lanka, she said.
"Nearly a lakh Tamil people still live precariously behind barbed wire fences like refugees in their own land. But Karunanidhi sent a team of MPs along with his daughter (Kanimozhi) and got them to certify that all was well in Sri Lanka. The day of reckoning is not far off," Jayalalithaa said in an apparent reference to Assembly elections scheduled in May this year.
Jaganmohan files application with EC to form new party
Former Congress MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today approached the Election Commission with an application for registration of his yet-to-be-launched political party.
Y V Subba Reddy, a close relative of Jagan, filed the application before the commission today and said the process is expected to take three weeks.
Asked about the name of the party, Subba Reddy refused to divulge it but said it will have the name of late chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the father of Jagan.
"I cannot say what the name will be but it will have the name of late YSR. The process is expected to end in sometime after which the name of the party will be made public," he told reporters.
Jaganmohan Reddy, who had revolted against the Congress leadership and left the party, had last week said he intends to seek re-election from Kadapa Lok Sabha seat and was not keen on destabilising the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh.
He said he has fast-tracked the process to register and launch his new political party before the byelections for Kadapa and Pulivendula assembly constituencies are announced.
The seats were vacated by him and his mother Vijayalaxmi after they quit Congress on November 29 last year alleging "humiliation" by the party high command.
Jagan has also claimed that he has no intention to destabilise the Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh as he is preparing to face the Assembly elections in 2014.
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Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (Tamil: திராவிட முன்னேற்ற கழகம்) (literally "Dravidian Progress Federation" [2]) (founded 1949, Madras Presidency, India) is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry , India. It is a Dravidian partyfounded by C. N. Annadurai as a breakaway faction from the Dravidar Kazhagam (known asJustice Party till 1944) headed by Periyar. Since 1969, DMK is headed by M Karunanidhi, the current Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. DMK holds the distinction of being the first party other than the Indian National Congress to win state-level elections with clear majority on its own in any state in India.[3]
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[edit]History
[edit]Justice Party
DMK traces its roots to the South Indian Liberal Federation (Justice Party) formed in 1916, by P. Thiyagarayar, Dr. P.T. Rajan, Dr. Natesanar and few others. The Justice Party, whose objectives included social equality and justice, came to power in the first General Elections to Madras Presidency in 1920.[4] E. V. Ramasami Naicker, a popular Tamil leader of the time, who had joined Indian National Congress in 1919, to oppose what he considered as theBrahminic leadership of the party.[5] Naicker's experience at the Vaikom Satyagraha made him to start the Self-Respect Movement in 1926 which was rationalistic and "violently anti-Brahminic".[6] He quit Congress and in 1935, he joined the Justice Party. In the 1937 elections, the Justice Party lost and the Indian National Congress under C. Rajagopalachari ("Rajaji") came to power in Madras Presidency. Rajaji's introduction of Hindi as a compulsory subject in schools led to the anti-Hindi agitations, led by Periyar and his associates.
[edit]Dravida Kazhagam
In August 1944, Periyar created the 'Dravida Kazhagham' out of the Justice Party and the Self-Respect Movement at the Salem Provincial Conference.[7] Dravidar Kazhagam insisted on an independent nation for Dravidians called Dravida Nadu consisting of areas that were covered under Madras Presidency.
[edit]Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
Over the years, many disputes arose between Periyar and his followers. In 1949, several of his followers led by C. N. Annadurai, decided to split from Dravidar Kazhagham, after an aged Periyar married a young woman Maniammai and anointed his young wife to act as his successor to lead the party, superseding senior party leaders. Until then E. V. K. Sampath, the nephew of Periyar, was considered as his political heir.[8]
Annadurai, on September 17, 1949 along with V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, K.A. Mathiazhagan, K. Anbazhagan, N.V. Natarajan, E. V. K. Sampath and thousands of others in Robinson park in Royapuram in Chennai announced the formation of the DMK.
[edit]MGR's entry
M. G. Ramachandran, K. A. Mathialagan, C. N. Annadurai, Rajaji andM. Karunanidhi
MGR was a member of the DMK, and he was seen as an icon of the DMK and spread its message through films like Anbe Vaa. In 1953, MGR joined the DMK, popularised the party flag and symbol which at that time stood for secession from India by showing it in his movies. DMK entered the electoral fray rather unsuccessfully in 1957 with even senior leader V. R. Nedunchezhiyan losing fromSalem although M Karunanidhi won after initially having opposed all Indian government and later supporting only those parties which promised to help its secession from India cause.
[edit]1960s
DMK leaders K. A. Mathialagan, V. P. Raman, C. N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi with Rajaji
Annadurai wanted a separate Dravida Nadu but the DMK changed its stance with the Chinese invasion in 1962 and suspended its demand for the length of the war and supported India raising funds for the war. When the war ended, nationalistic feelings were so strong that DMK gave up the separate Dravida nation idea.
The Anti-Hindi agitations of 1965 forced the central government to abandon its efforts to impose Hindi as the only official language of the country; still Hindi imposition continued as Indian government employees are asked to write as much as 65% of the letters and memoranda in Hindi.
In 1967, DMK came to power in Madras province 18 years after its formation and 10 years after it had first entered electoral politics. This began the Dravidian era in Madras province which later became Tamil Nadu.
In 1969, party general secretary and founder, CN Annadurai died. After his death, there was a power tussle between M Karunanidhi andNendunchezhiyan and the post of party president was created as a compromise with Karunanidhi becoming the president and Nendunchediyan becoming general secretary .
[edit]Karunanidhi's presidency
[edit]MGR's exit
M. G. Ramachandran (MGR) who was a popular actor and the then party treasurer had played a vital part in popularizing the party's ideologies. The political feud between MGR and the party president Karunanidhi emerged as an aftermath of the latter calling himself "Mujib of Tamil Nadu". In 1972, MGR called for a boycott of the party's General Council. With the crisis falling into call for corruption probe by MGR, he was eventually suspended from the General Council. Thus emerged a new party All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).[9]
[edit]Post-MGR
In April 1974, the DMK government brought in a resolution in the House urging the Centre to accept the Rajamannar Committeerecommendations on state autonomy and amend the Constitution of India to pave the way for a true federal system.
After MGR's death in December 1987, AIADMK split into two factions between Janaki (MGR's wife) and Jayalalithaa. DMK returned to power in 1989 State assembly elections. Karunanidhi took over as chief minister in January 1989. Subsequent to this, the LTTE "sent personal emissaries to Karunanidhi for seeking his active support in their battle against the IPKF".[10]
Then in 1991 elections are arranged to be held for both State and Central government. In 21 May 1991 Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai in a election campaign meeting. It was later found the he has been killed by suicide bomber from LTTE, citingIPKF atrocities [11] in Srilanka as a reason.
This lead to sympathy wave favor of AIADMK - Congress alliance and DMK is deprived of any seats in the Parliament. This brings the rise of political rival J.Jayalalithaa to the DMK.
In 1996 election DMK came to power and M Karunanidhi form the government in the State. In 2004 parliamentary elections, DMK formed a alliance with Congress - Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and swept a grand Victory, the alliance won all 40 seats including Puducherry. This enable 7 ministerial post in the Central government and influential power to DMK.
Two years later 2006 same alliance won in the state assembly election and DMK formed the government in the state. Mr. M Karunanidhibecome fifth time the Chief Minister of the State.
[edit]Party Symbol
The party's election symbol is the sun arising from between two mountains, called the Rising Sun.
[edit]Election history
See pdf for summary. DMK's worst poll performance ever in this state was registered in 1962 and its peak in 1996.
[edit]Madras State
Year | General Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won |
1962 | 3rd Assembly | 3,435,633 | 50 |
1962 | 3rd Lok Sabha | 2,315,610 | 7 |
1967 | 4th Assembly | 6,230,552 | 137 |
1967 | 4th Lok Sabha | 5,524,514 | 25 |
[edit]Tamil Nadu
Year | Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won | Alliance(s) |
1971 | 5th Assembly | 7,654,935 | 184 | INC(I)/CPI/AIFB/PSP/IUML |
1977 | 6th Assembly | 4,258,771 | 48 | None |
1980 | 7th Assembly | 4,164,389 | 37 | INC(I) |
1984 | 8th Assembly | 6,362,770 | 24 | CPI/CPM]/JP |
1989 | 9th Assembly | 8,001,222 | 150 | None |
1991 | 10th Assembly | 5,535,668 | 2 | TMK/CPI/CPM]/JD |
1996 | 11th Assembly | 11,423,380 | 173 | TMC |
2001 | 12th Assembly | 8,669,864 | 31 | NDA |
2006 | 13th Assembly | 8,728,716 | 96 | DPA/UPA |
Year | General Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won | Alliance(s) |
1971 | 5th Lok Sabha | 5,622,758 | 23 | INC(I) |
1977 | 6th Lok Sabha | 3,323,320 | 2 | JP |
1980 | 7th Lok Sabha | 4,236,537 | 16 | INC(I) |
1984 | 8th Lok Sabha | 5,597,507 | 2 | CPI/CPM]/JP/TNC |
1989 | 9th Lok Sabha | 7,038,849 | 0 | CPI/CPM]/JD |
1991 | 10th Lok Sabha | 5,601,597 | 0 | NF |
1996 | 11th Lok Sabha | 6,967,679 | 17 | UF |
1998 | 12th Lok Sabha | 5,140,266 | 5 | UF |
1999 | 13th Lok Sabha | 6,298,832 | 12 | NDA |
2004 | 14th Lok Sabha | 7,064,393 | 16 | DPA/UPA |
2009 | 15th Lok Sabha | 7,625,397 | 18 | UPA |
[edit]Puducherry
Year | Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won |
1974 | 3rd Assembly | 47,823 | 2 |
1977 | 4th Assembly | 30,441 | 3 |
1980 | 5th Assembly | 68,030 | 14 |
1985 | 6th Assembly | 87,754 | 5 |
1990 | 7th Assembly | 101,127 | 9 |
1991 | 8th Assembly | 96,607 | 4 |
1996 | 9th Assembly | 105,392 | 7 |
2001 | 10th Assembly | 83,679 | 7 |
2006 | 11th Assembly | 7 |
Year | General Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won |
1984 | 8th Lok Sabha | 97,672 | 0 |
1989 | 9th Lok Sabha | 157,250 | 0 |
1991 | 10th Lok Sabha | 140,313 | 0 |
1996 | 11th Lok Sabha | 183,702 | 0 |
1998 | 12th Lok Sabha | 168,122 | 1 |
[edit]See also
[edit]References
- ^ http://news.outlookindia.com/item.aspx?671797
- ^ Rao, MSA (1979) Urban Sociology in India Orient Longman Publishers.
- ^ Chakrabarty, Bidyut (2008). Indian Politics and Society Since Independence. Routledge. pp. 110–111. ISBN 0415408687.
- ^ Radhan, O.P. (2002). "A Time-Bound Plan for Muslim India".Encyclopaedia of Political Parties. Anmol Publications. pp. 187.ISBN 8174888659.
- ^ Omvedt, Gail (2006). Dalit Visions: The Anti-caste Movement and the Construction on an Indian Identity. Orient Longman. pp. 54–55.ISBN 8125028951.
- ^ "Ethnic balance". India Today. December 20, 2007. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ^ Dirks, Nicholas B. (2001). Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton University Press. pp. 263.ISBN 978-0691088952.
- ^ Priest-less weddings in TN VIP families - Sify News
- ^ Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr.(1973) Politics and the Film in Tamilnadu: The Stars and the DMK. Asian Survey. University of California Press.
- ^ "Jain commission interim report indicts FM, ex-Prime Minister". Indian Express. November 9, 1997. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ^ IPKF ATROCITIES http://pallavaram-ravi.blogspot.com/2009/03/monday-december-22-2008-touching-moment.html
[edit]External links
- The official party website
- Election reports by EC
- Manisegaran on Dravida Movement
- Dravida Munnetra Kalagam at wordpress.com
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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
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Leader
Founded
MG Ramachandran, October 17, 1972
Headquarters
- 226, Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Roayapettah, Chennai- 600014
Newspaper
Alliance
National Democratic Alliance(1998 & 2004-06)
Third Front (2008-present)
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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (Tamil: அனைத்திந்திய அண்ணா திராவிட முன்னேற்ற கழகம்) is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, India. The party was founded by M. G. Ramachandran and is now headed by J. Jayalalithaa. The party headquarters is in Royapettah, Chennai, and was gifted to the party in 1986 by its former leader Janaki Ramachandran, wife of M. G. Ramachandran.
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[edit]MGR era
The party was founded in 1972 by M. G. Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR), a veteran star of the Tamil film industry and a popular politician, as a breakaway from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by M. Karunanidhi, the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu, owing to differences between the two. Relations between the two parties have been marked by mutual contempt.
Till the time MGR, also known as Puratchi Thalaivar (Revolutionary Leader), was alive, the AIADMK continued to be dominated by one man, despite the presence of formidable leaders like V. R. Nedunchezhiyan, R. M. Veerappan, S. Thirunavukkarasu, and J. Jayalalitha.
The government led by the DMK, was dismissed by a Central promulgation after MGR filed a petition seeking enquiry into corruption charges.[citation needed] The Central Government was held by the Congress Party, an ally of the AIADMK. The party came to power in 1977 after trouncing DMK in the next elections to the legislative assembly in the state and MGR was named the Chief Minister. He was sworn in as chief minister of the state on June 30, 1977. In 1979, AIADMK became the first Dravidian and non-congress party to be part of the Union Cabinet, when two AIADMK Members of Parliament, Satyavani Muthu and Aravinda Bala Pajanor, joined the short-lived Charan Singh Ministry which followed the Morarji Desai-led Janata Partygovernment of 1977-79.
Relations between the Congress party and the AIADMK slowly became strained and the DMK got closer to the Congress Party. In the mid-term parliamentary elections of January 1980, the Congress Party aligned with the DMK and the alliance won 37 out of 39 parliamentary seats in the state; the AIADMK had just two seats.
After returning to power, the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi's government dismissed a number of state governments belonging to the opposition parties, including Dr. M. G. Ramachandran's government. Elections to the state legislature were held in late May 1980. Reversing the trend of Lok Sabha elections, the AIADMK won a comfortable majority in the state assembly by winning 129 seats out of 234. MGR was sworn in as chief minister for the second time on June 9, 1980.
In 1984, even with MGR's failing health and subsequent hospitalization abroad, the party managed to win the state elections in alliance with the Congress party that had improved relations with the AIADMK. Many political historians consider MGR's persona and charisma at this point of time as "infallible", and a logical continuation of his on-screen "good lad" image, strengthened by his mythical status in the minds of the masses.[citation needed] The victory of the AIADMK-Congress combine in the assembly elections seemed so certain that the DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi refrained from contesting the assembly elections of 1984. MGR continued to enjoy popular support in his third tenure, which ended with his demise on December 24, 1987.
[edit]Succession crisis
Janaki Ramachandran the second Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu from the AIADMK Party
MGR's wife Janaki Ramachandran subsequently rose to the party's leadership and led the government as the state's first woman chief minister until the state assembly was suspended and President's rule imposed. The party, in the absence of a personality of MGR's calibre, began to crumble, with infighting, and broke into two factions, one under Janaki Ramachandran and the other under J. Jayalalithaa, a former film star and associate of MGR. The state elections in 1989 saw DMK regaining power with Karunanidhi at the helm. The factions led by Jayalalitha and Janaki merged in 1988 under the former's leadership. The DMK government was dismissed in 1990 by the central government led by prime minister Chandra Shekhar Singh, an ally of the AIADMK at that time, with accusations that the constitutional machinery in the state had broken down.
[edit]J. Jayalalitha era
The AIADMK swept to power in the elections of 1991. Many political observers have ascribed the landslide victory to the anti-incumbent wave arising out of the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi[citation needed] by suspected Tamil separatists fighting for a homeland in neighbouring Sri Lanka. The ensuing government was accused of large-scale corruption, but Jayalalithaa managed to hold on to power for a full term of five years, after which she lost the next election to the DMK, in 1996. The DMK held power till 2001, when Jayalalithaa won the next election to become chief minister once again. She has been very vocal in opposing the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) since then and has had a wishy-washy political association with Subramaniam Swamy. Some AIADMK cadres were accused of being behind the acid-attack on Subramaniam Swamy's acquaintance, Chandralekha, an IAS officer.
In her second term as chief minister, Ms. Jayalalitha avoided the blunders she committed during the first term. However, she was plagued by corruption cases related to her earlier rule and had to sit out of the government for some time. After having been cleared by the courts she became chief minister again. She undertook economic reforms and took many popular decisions[citation needed] such as banning of lottery tickets, restricting the liquor and sand quarrying business to government agencies and banning tobacco product sales near schools and colleges. She also took action against gangsters, trouble makers, and striking government employees, and improved law and order in the state[citation needed].
She sent a special task force to the Satyamangalam forests in October 2004 to hunt down notorious sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. The operation was successful as Veerappan was finally killed by the task force on 18 October 2004.
However, in the Parliamentary elections of 2004, the party lost all their seats to the opposition coalition comprising all major opposition parties in the state.
In the assembly elections of 2006, in spite of media speculations of a hung assembly, the AIADMK was pushed out of power owing to big sweep by the DMK led by M Karunanidhi. It managed to hold on to only 61 assembly seats.
AIADMK has spread out and has following in the states of Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh with official units. The party under the leadership of Dr. Jayalalitha had floated 54 candidates across the state of Kerala in the Assembly elections of 2006 and had contested on its own. Initially AIADMK had made an alliance with Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran) led by the former Kerala Chief Minister K. Karunakaran, but decided to go on its own when the latter went with the Congress led United Democratic Front at the last moment, as a result of the mediation talks from the constituents of the UDF. In Karnataka the party had members in the state Assembly. AIADMK has its following in various other places like Mumbai and Delhi. There are also units in various countries where the Tamil population is spread out.
Jayalalitha is intelligent and efficient, but her authoritarian style left with no visible second level leadership or youth faces in her party. In this era of development oriented politics, her party lacks well-known figures.[clarification needed]
Recently she made an effort to attract youths, by forming "Ilaignar Pasarai", which gained momentum, but her effort was demolished in one stroke, when she asked youths to be patient in a marriage function. Various press articles reported that youth in her party was disappointed by her remarks. She has attacked the DMK over its role in the government's neglect of the economy, ignoring the rising cost of living and further ignoring the increase in political extremism.[1]
[edit]Religion
By religion Annadurai was a Hindu. He affirmed his belief in God as one, and humanity as one.[2] He said: Ondre Kulam, Oruvane Thevan.[3]His followers, using his example, raised the slogan, "One God, One Race".
In an interview he said, "Oh, no. I am always pleading for real faith in God."[4]
Annadurai would attack superstitions and religious exploitation but would never fight against spiritual values of society.[5]
[edit]Election history
[edit]Tamil Nadu
Year | General Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won |
1977 | 6th Assembly | 5,194,876 | 131 |
1977 | 6th Lok Sabha | 5,365,076 | 17 |
1980 | 7th Assembly | 7,303,010 | 129 |
1980 | 7th Lok Sabha | 4,674,064 | 2 |
1984 | 8th Assembly | 8,030,809 | 134 |
1984 | 8th Lok Sabha | 3,968,967 | 12 |
1989 | 9th Assembly | 148,630 | 2 |
1989 | 9th Lok Sabha | 4,518,649 | 11 |
1991 | 10th Assembly | 10,940,966 | 164 |
1991 | 10th Lok Sabha | 4,470,542 | 11 |
1996 | 11th Assembly | 5,831,383 | 4 |
1996 | 11th Lok Sabha | 2,130,286 | 0 |
1998 | 12th Lok Sabha | 6,628,928 | 18 |
1999 | 13th Lok Sabha | 6,992,003 | 10 |
2001 | 12th Assembly | 8,815,387 | 132 |
2004 | 14th Lok Sabha | 8,547,014 | 0 |
2006 | 13th Assembly | 10,768,559 | 61 |
2009 | 15th Lok Sabha | 6,953,591 | 9 |
[edit]Pondicherry
Year | General Election | Votes Polled | Seats Won |
1974 | 3rd Assembly | 60,812 | 12 |
1977 | 4th Assembly | 69,873 | 14 |
1977 | 6th Lok Sabha | 115,302 | 1 |
1980 | 5th Assembly | 45,623 | 0 |
1985 | 6th Assembly | 47,521 | 6 |
1990 | 7th Assembly | 76,337 | 3 |
1991 | 8th Assembly | 67,792 | 6 |
1996 | 9th Assembly | 57,678 | 3 |
1998 | 12th Lok Sabha | 102,622 | 0 |
2001 | 10th Assembly | 59,926 | 3 |
2006 | 11th Assembly | 3 |
[edit]References
- ^ Unattributed (2009-04-30). "Tamil Eelam: Jayalalithaa cites India's role in creating Bangladesh". The Hindu 132 (102): p. 8. Retrieved 2009-05-01.
- ^ P. 66 Daughter of the South By Pi. Ci Kaṇēcan̲
- ^ P. 41 Ethnic movement in India By Ganapathy Palanithurai, R. Thandavan
- ^ P. 44 Seminar
- ^ P. 25 C.N. Annadurai By Pi. Ci Kaṇēcan̲
[edit]External links
- Official website for All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam :: www.admkindia.org
- Official website for Dr Namathu MGR Publication :: www.drmgr.org
- Information about AIADMK on Indian-Elections.com
- BBM interview in Indian Express, 08 July 2009 about AIADMK Plans to Launch 10 Websites
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