Pattali Makkal Katchi is a political party in Tamil Nadu,India,founded by S. Ramadoss in 1989 for the Vanniyar caste in northern Tamil Nadu. It is a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). It contests the elections with the "Ripe Mango" symbol.
Rangasamy Velu,is an Indian politician of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) party. He has been elected to 14th Lok Sabha as Union Minister of State,Railways from Arakkonam Lok Sabha constituency of Tamil Nadu from 2004 to 2009. He started his political career as Officer of Indian Administrative Service and worked as Additional Registrar,Cooperative Societies;also served as member,Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. He also worked as District Collector;Director of Municipal Administration and Joint Commissioner,Revenue Administration. He has a PhD in disaster management,he also has a bachelor of Law degree and master of business administration degree. He was educated in the Voorhees college Vellore,Madras Law College,Madras University and Madras Christian College and was a resident of Bishop Heber Hall. He has published his autobiography in Tamil named ‘en vazhkai payanam’. He is from Vanniyar community.
The thirteenth legislative assembly election,of Tamil Nadu was held on 8 May 2006. It was held for all 234 constituencies to elect the government in the state for the following five years. The votes were counted three days later on 11 May 2006 and all the results were out by the end of the day. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led (DMK) front won the elections,with the DMK emerging as the single-largest party with 96 seats,and its leader,M Karunanidhi was sworn in as Chief Minister for a fifth and final term. This election marked the first time the state saw a hung assembly with no party gaining a majority of its own. As a result,DMK formed a minority government with its allies,which is the first in the state since the 1952 election. 13th Assembly was instituted due to this election.
M. Ramadass was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Pondicherry constituency and is a member of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) political party led by S. Ramadoss. He lost to Narayanaswamy,in the 15th Lok Sabha election,in the renamed Puducherry constituency
K. Dhanaraju was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Tindivanam constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) political party.
E. Ponnuswamy was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Chidambaram constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) political party. He translate and wrote many books
S. Ramadoss is an Indian politician. He is the founder of the Pattali Makkal Katchi,an Indian political party.
Tholkappiyan Thirumavalavan,better known as Thol. Thirumavalavan is a political leader,scholar and activist from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He is a Member of Parliament from Chidambaram. Leader and President of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi. He rose to prominence in the 1990s as a bahujan leader,and formally entered politics in 1999. His political platform centres on ending caste-based discrimination and consequently the caste system. He has also expressed support for Tamil nationalist movements in Sri Lanka.
Dalit Ezhilmalai was an Indian union minister. He was a leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK),and was Union Minister of State,Health and Family Welfare during the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in 1998–99.
Arakkonam is a Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. Its Tamil Nadu Parliamentary Constituency number is 7 of 39.
The twelfth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 10 May 2001. All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)-led front won the elections and its general secretary,J. Jayalalithaa was sworn in as Chief Minister,even though she could not legally run as MLA in this election. She was unanimously nominated as Chief Minister by her party and was ready to serve her second term. But due to criminal and corruption charges from her first term,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 offense and sentenced to imprisonment for 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 Dr. J. 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. After her resignation on 21 September 2001,she put in O. Panneerselvam,as the official 13th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,until she could clear up the charges from her first term,so she can take up the mantle of Chief Minister officially,on 2 March 2002.
The 2009 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu was held for 39 seats in the state. There was a radical change in the alliances in this election compared to the last election,reminiscent of the 1999 election in Tamil Nadu. In this election the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) decided to stay with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA),but the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK),Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,and the left parties decided to ally itself with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the newly formed Third Front named United National Progressive Alliance.
G. K. Mani is,as of 1998,the honary president of Pattali Makkal Katchi from 2022 completing more than 25 years as president of PMK party. G.K. Mani's name was proposed by PMK founder Dr. S. Ramadoss during the party's general body meeting in 1998 for President's post in PMK. Later the same year,he was elected by votes for the PMK's President.
Kaduvetti Guru,also known as J. Guru,was an Indian politician,who was twice elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Tamil Nadu. He was the president of a caste organisation,the Vanniyar Sangam.
Ranjith is an Indian actor who appears in Tamil and Malayalam language films.
In the 2012 Dharmapuri violence,a Vanniyar caste mob set fire to about 268 Dalit houses in Natham,old and new Kondampatti and Annanagar Dalit colonies in Dharmapuri district,Tamil Nadu on 8 November 2012. The violence occurred after a Vanniyar girl from Sellankottai village,and a Dalit boy,from the neighbouring Dalit colony of Natham,fled due to parental opposition to get married. A caste panchayat held on the morning of 7 November by leaders from both communities ruled that the girl be returned to her family. Distraught at her decision to stay with her husband,her father allegedly committed suicide. The discovery of his body later that day is said to have provoked a 1,500-strong mob to rampage through Natham and two smaller Dalit settlements,Kondampatti and Anna Nagar,where it set ablaze over 200 houses,damaged at least 50 others,and allegedly looted valuables and cash worth lakhs of rupees. The mob rampaged for four hours and was brought under control after arrest of 90 men and an additional deployment of 1000 policemen.
The 2013 Marakkanam violence was an incident of violence in Tamil Nadu between Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and Dalit villagers in Marakkanam. The violence was instigated when drunk PMK cadres attacked Dalit villagers. The Dalit villagers blocked the road demanding their attackers be arrested which stopped the vehicle convoy taking PMK members to a youth festival organized by the Vanniyar Sangam at Mamallapuram. The PMK members attacked the Dalit colony and burned down nine huts of Dalits,they attacked homes of Muslims and offices of AIADMK MPs,they vandalized buses,felled trees among other things. In the ensuing violence,two PMK members were killed.
The 2014 Indian general elections for Tamil Nadu's 39 seats in the 16th Lok Sabha were held on 24 April 2014. The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam led by its general secretary J. Jayalalithaa won a spectacular victory,taking 37 of the 39 seats. The total electors in the state of Tamil Nadu for the election was 55,114,867 and 73.74% of voters exercised their right to do so. The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.
S. Senthilkumar is an Indian politician known. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Dharmapuri,Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
B. John Pandian is an advocate,social worker and an Indian politician from Tamilnadu. He founded the Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam party in 2000.
