The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is an Indian political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu,where it is currently the ruling party,and the union territory of Puducherry,where it is currently the main opposition.
Dravidar Kazhagam is a social movement founded by E. V. Ramasami,also called Thanthai Periyar. Its original goals were to eradicate the ills of the existing caste system including untouchability and on a grander scale to obtain a "Dravida Nadu" from the Madras Presidency. Dravidar Kazhagam would in turn give birth to many other political parties,including Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and later the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Sir Ponnambala Thiaga Rajan was the First Minister of Madras Presidency from 4 April 1936,to 24 August 1936. He was also the last President of the Justice Party. P. T. Rajan was born in a Thondaimandala mudaliar family in Uthamapalayam. His ancestors were from Kanchipuram. He attended The Leys School,Cambridge and later,Jesus College,Oxford. He graduated in history and law,and practiced as an advocate for some time before joining the Justice Party.
Dravidian parties include an array of regional political parties in the state of Tamil Nadu,India,which trace their origins and ideologies either directly or indirectly to the Justice Party and the Dravidian movement of C. Natesanar and Periyar E. V. Ramasamy. The Dravidian movement was based on the linguistic divide in India,where most of the Northern Indian,Eastern Indian and Western Indian languages are classified as Indo-Aryan,whereas the South Indian languages are classified as Dravidian. Dravidian politics has developed by associating itself to the Dravidian community. The original goal of Dravidian politics was to achieve social equality,but it later championed the cause of ending the domination of North India over the politics and economy of the South Indian province known as Madras Presidency.
Paul Hector Pandian was an Indian politician of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu from Tirunelveli district. He served as the Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 1985 to 1989. He served as Deputy Speaker and Speaker of Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from 21 June 1980 to 5 February 1989. He was one of the only two candidates elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislature from the V. N. Janaki Ramachandran Faction of AIADMK in 1989,when he won the Cheranmahadevi seat. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tirunelveli Parliamentary constituency in 1999. He was the organising secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam which was led by former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa.
Veeraswami Ramaswami is an Indian retired judge of the Supreme Court of India and the first judge against whom removal proceedings were initiated in independent India.
Aladi Aruna (alias) V Arunachalam was an Indian politician. He was the Law Minister of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from Alangulam constituency in the 1967,1971 and 1996 elections. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,the lower house of India's Parliament,from Tirunelveli constituency in the 1977 elections. He was also a member of the Rajya Sabha,the upper house of India's Parliament,as a member of the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. He came into the limelight when he issued a dissent note in the JPC report on the Bofors Scandal against a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi government. He was murdered in 2004.
P. H. Manoj Pandian is a politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly for Alangulam constituency. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Cheranmahadevi constituency in 2001 election and former Member of Parliament from 2010 to 2016.
V. Karuppasamy Pandian is an Indian politician and a former Member of the Legislative Assembly in Tamil Nadu. He is currently one of the leaders of the anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) party in Tirunelveli district.
R. Avudaiyappan is an Indian politician and former speaker of Tamil Nadu Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as a Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Ambasamudram constituency in 1996 and 2006 elections.
C. Karuppasamy was an Indian politician and a former minister in the Government of Tamil Nadu and four time Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Sankarankoil Assembly constituency in 1996,2001,2006 and 2011 as a member of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIDMK) party.
R. Murugaiah Pandian is an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate from Ambasamudram constituency in 1991 and 2016 elections. He served as chairman of Tamil Nadu Housing Board from 2011 to 2016.
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.
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.
Arun Pandian is an Indian actor,filmmaker and politician who predominately works in Tamil films. He began his career as an actor as part of the critically acclaimed film Oomai Vizhigal (1986). After retiring from acting,he took the post of chief producer for the London-based Ayngaran International,a film production and distribution company,however,he later started his own production and distribution company A&P Groups.
N. V. Natarajan was an Indian politician of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was a founding member of the DMK. He served as the Minister of Labour and Backward Classes in the Tamil Nadu government during 1969-75.
Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education and employment. Reservations in the state rose from 41 percent in 1954 to 69 percent in 1990.
R. Thamaraiselvan was an Indian politician and Ex member of the Parliament of India from Dharmapuri Constituency. He represents the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party. He was a successful Senior Advocate from Madras High Court and represents various cases in Apex Courts. He was born to Shri L.P. Ramar and Smt.Pachiammal and is married to Smt.Geetha,who is also a practicing Advocate from Madras High Court for more than two decades. Though,he hails from a traditional DMK family tracing back from Justice Party,he was an acclaimed Counsel on Record and a Full time Politician of DMK party.
Samiyadiyan Gnanathiraviam is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Tirunelveli,Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Indian general election as member of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
Justice Ratnavel Pandian Subbiah is a sitting Judge of the Charted High Court of Madras. Subbiah is the Executive Chairman for the Tamil Nadu State Legal Services Authority. He was elevated as a Judge of High Court of Madras on 24 March 2008.
