Related Research Articles
The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former leader of the opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Vijayakant, at Madurai on 14 September 2005. The party was led by its founder until 14 December 2023 from its date of founding. From 14 December 2023, the DMDK is led by Vijayakant's wife Premallatha Vijayakant as general secretary of the party. The party served as the main opposition party in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 27 May 2011 to 21 February 2016. The headquarters of the party is located at Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, Koyambedu, Chennai.
Ethirajulu Vajjaravelu or E. V. Velu is an Indian politician who has been serving as the Minister of Public Works, Highways and Minor Ports in the M. K. Stalin ministry of the state of Tamil Nadu since 2021. He formerly served as the Minister for Food in the state under M. Karunanidhi (2006–2011).
The second legislative assembly election to the Madras state was held on 31 March 1957. This was the first election held after the linguistic reorganisation of Madras State in 1956. Indian National Congress and its leader, K. Kamaraj won the election and defeated their rival, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. In 1954, due to the resignation of C. Rajagopalachari, for his controversial Kula Kalvi Thittam, the leadership of Congress was contested between K. Kamaraj, and C. Subramaniam. Eventually, K. Kamaraj, won the support of the party, was elected leader and chief minister of Madras State in 1954. In a surprise move, he appointed both M. Bhaktavatsalam and C. Subramaniam, to his cabinet, allowing great unity amongst the Congress that ruled the state of Madras, for the next decade. This election saw future DMK leaders M. Karunanidhi and K. Anbazhagan win their first MLA seats in the legislative assembly.
Peravurani is a state assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu. Peravurani constituency created on the year of 1967 on delimitation of Pattukkottai Assembly constituency. It elects a member to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly once every five years. From the 1967 elections, Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the assembly seat three times, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam won the assembly seat three times, Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) won two times by 1996 and 2001 elections and Indian National Congress two times won the seat and Desiya Murpokku Dravidar Kazhagam won the seat in 2011 election. The current member of legislative assembly N. Ashok Kumar from Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. It is one of the 234 State Legislative Assembly Constituencies in Tamil Nadu, in India.
Panruti S. Ramachandran is an Indian Tamil politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.
K. Annamalai is an Indian hotelier and former politician who served in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 2001 until 2006. A member of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, he represented the Tenkasi constituency.
A. Asokan, also called Nagai Asokan, is an Indian Tamil politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) candidate from Tiruvarur constituency in the 1996 and 2001 elections. He was appointed as DMK Youth wing Deputy Secretary and Member of Executive committee Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in 2000.
Natham R. Viswanathan is an Indian politician and deputy general secretary of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He is a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Natham Constituency. He was the Minister for Electricity and Prohibition and Excise, Govt. of Tamil Nadu. Previously, he was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Natham constituency in 1999 after the death of then legislative member of Natham, M. Andi Ambalam. He has won consecutively in 2001, 2006 and 2011 elections in a landslide vote count and has a cult following.
Kaveripattinam Poongavanam Munusamy is an Indian politician and deputy general secretary of AIADMK and incumbent member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from Krishnagiri Constituency. Munusamy completed his Bachelor of Arts from Govt. Arts College, Krishnagiri during 1971-1974 and later graduated Bachelor of Law from Government Law College, Chennai. He was a Minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development in the Government of Tamil Nadu.
S. Semmalai is an Indian politician active in Tamil Nadu. He is the incumbent member of the state legislative assembly (MLA) from Mettur constituency. He has been elected four times to the Tamil Nadu state assembly and once to the national parliament of India (2009–14).
Maduranthakam C. Arumugam, popularly known as Madhuranthagathar, was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was the founder member of Dravida Munetra Kazhagam. He was a member of the General Committee with C.N.Annadurai in the Chengai Anna District. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Maduranthakam constituency as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 1971, 1977, and 1984. He was also Chengalpattu District secretary for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from 1971 to 1993. He was a close associate of Dravida Munetra Kazhagam chief Thiru M.Karunanidhi and he was a member of the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam Trust. He fought hard and won the 1984 Assembly elections against 90 people, then protested against Hindi imposition, burnt the copy of the Constitution of India. He was jailed for 45 days and was disqualified from Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly. He died on June 2, 2005.
K. Sundar is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu and the Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu for the Uthiramerur Constituency. He's also the District Secretary of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party, for the Kanchipuram South region. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Uthiramerur constituency as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 1989, 1996, 2006,2016 and for the fifth time in the 2021 election.
Sathyavani Muthu was an Indian politician and an influential leader from Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu, Rajya Sabha member and Union Minister. She began her political career as a member of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, began her own party, Thazhthapattor Munnetra Kazhagam and later joined the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. In late 1990s, she again joined in DMK.
P. K. Sekar Babu is an Indian politician and Minister of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. Currently, he is elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly from Harbour as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 2016 and 2021 elections. He won his first two elections from R k Nagar constituency as an AIADMK candidate.
Kanchi Panneerselvam is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament elected from Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Chengalpattu constituency as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in 1989 and 1998 elections.
M. Kalai Arasu is an Indian politician and was a member of the 14th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Anaicut constituency in Vellore District. He was elected as a candidate of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) party.
R. Kumaraguru is an Indian politician from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Ulundurpet constituency. He has been elected as an member of legislative assembly for the third consecutive time since 2006 assembly elections.He defeated the Vijayakanth, founder of DMDK party during 2016 assembly elections. He represents the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. As an AIADMK candidate in the 2006 elections, he was elected as a member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Thirunavalur assembly constituency which was eliminated during the constituency reorganization. Later, 2011 to 2016 he contested the Ulundurpet assembly election for the Second time in 2016 and won as a member of the assembly after 2016 to 2021. In this election, he defeated the leader of the opposition party, the leader of the DMDK Party of India, Vijayakanth. And Third time Winner of Tamilnadu Legislative Assembly in ulundurpet constituency.He later contested the Ulundurpet assembly constituency from 2021 to 2026 on behalf of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam against DMK and lost by a margin of 5,256 votes and 2.17%.
S. Gunasekaran is an Indian politician and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Sivaganga constituency.
M.Thiravidamani is an Indian politician and incumbent member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from the Gudalur constituency. He represents the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party.
Tamilmozhi Rajadattan is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. She was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Melmalaiyanur constituency in the 2001 election. She contested and was the runner up in the election to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Melmalaiyanur constituency in the 2006 election.