Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Raebareli. She had previously served as the President of the Indian National Congress,being the longest-serving in its history. She was married to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi until his assassination in 1991.
Rahul Rajiv Gandhi is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian Parliament,who represents the constituency of Wayanad,Kerala in the Lok Sabha. He previously represented the constituency of Amethi,Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the main opposition party,the Indian National Congress and was the party president from December 2017 to July 2019. He is the chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress,the National Students Union of India and a trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. He is the son of the former Prime Minister of India,Rajiv Gandhi.
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.
G. K. Vasan is an Indian Politician and son of G. K Moopanar,a veteran Indian National Congress Leader. G K Vasan is currently the president of Tamil Maanila Congress (M),a political party in the state of Tamil Nadu,India. He was a member of Rajya Sabha,an upper house of Indian Parliament from the year 2002 until 2014. During his tenure as a Member of Indian Parliament,he had functioned in several positions in the Union Government under UPA 1 &UPA II regime including as a Minister of State for Ministry of Statistics &Programme Implementation from Jan 2006 –May 2009;Union Minister of Shipping from May 2009 –May 2014 and as an In-charge Minister for Labour from Jan 2014 - April 2014.
Palaniappan Chidambaram,better known as P. Chidambaram,is an Indian politician and lawyer who currently serves as Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha. He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs from 2017 to 2018. And also served Interim Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha from 2022 to 2023 under Mallikarjun Kharge.
The Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (transl. Tamil State Congress (Moopanar);abbr.TMC(M)) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It was founded by the former member of parliament of the Republic of India G. K. Moopanar on 29 March 1996 as a breakaway faction from the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee.
The Indian National Congress was established when 72 representatives from all over the country met at Bombay in 1885. Prominent delegates included Dadabhai Naoroji,Surendranath Banerjee,Badruddin Tyabji,Pherozeshah Mehta,W. C. Bonnerjee,S. Ramaswami Mudaliar,S. Subramania Iyer,and Romesh Chunder Dutt. The Englishman Allan Octavian Hume,a former British civil servant,was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Minjur Bhakthavatsalam was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the chief minister of Madras State from 2 October 1963 to 6 March 1967. He was the last Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the last to have taken part in the Indian independence movement.
K. V. Thangkabalu is a former member of the Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Salem constituency of Tamil Nadu and is a member of the Indian National Congress (INC) political party.
Govindaswamy Karuppiah Moopanar,known as G. K. Moopanar,was a Tamil Nadu Congress Committee leader,parliamentarian,and social worker. He served as Member of the Rajya Sabha,president of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and general secretary of All India Congress Committee. from 1980 to 1988. Moopanar was a close associate of Congress leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister,K. Kamaraj.
Subburaman Thirunavukkarasar is an Indian politician. He was the State President of Tamil Nadu Congress Committee till 2 February 2019 and former secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) of the Indian National Congress (INC) party. His introduction to politics in 1977 was facilitated by former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu,M. G. Ramachandran. Ramachandran founded the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in 1972 and was facing his first elections for the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election in 1977. He identified Thirunavukkarasar,a lawyer by profession,to contest the Aranthangi assembly constituency. Thirunavukkarasar won the seat,aged 27,and was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He continued in that capacity till 1980. Subsequently,he served as Tamil Nadu state minister from 1980 to 1987 in the MGR cabinet,holding portfolios that included Industries,Housing Board,Excise and Handlooms. Later,he became a member of the Lok Sabha –the lower house of the Parliament of India –when he won the erstwhile Pudukottai Lok Sabha constituency. He served as Union Minister of state for shipping and later for telecommunications and information technology.
The eleventh legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held on 2 May 1996. The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led front won the election and its leader M. Karunanidhi,became the chief minister. This was his fourth term in office. S. Balakrishnan,also known as So. Balakrishnan,of Tamil Maanila Congress,became the Leader of the Opposition. The incumbent All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) government was defeated in a landslide with its general secretary and outgoing chief minister J. Jayalalithaa losing the election from the Bargur constituency. She became the first Incumbent Chief Minister since M. Bakthavatsalam in 1967 to lose her own constituency.
Dr. A. Chellakumar is an Indian politician and Member of parliament. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly as an Indian National Congress (INC) candidate from Anna Nagar constituency in the 1991 election and as a Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (TMC) candidate from T. Nagar constituency in the 1996 election. He was unsuccessful in winning the Villivakkam constituency in 2001. and in the 2011 election he attempted once again to gain the T. Nagar seat. His candidacy in 2001 was as a TMC member and in 2011 it was for the INC. He was runner-up on both occasions.
D. Sudarsanam was an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.He has three sons Amaranth,Gopinath and Aravind. He has two grandsons Pranav chitta and Ishaan raghav and four granddaughters Shivani,Jyoshita,Advaitha and Aarika
The Fourteenth Legislative Assembly Election was held on 13 April 2011 to elect members from 234 constituencies in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Results were released on 13 May 2011. Two major parties Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) faced the election as coalitions of multiple political parties:DMK front consisted of 8 parties and the AIADMK of 11 parties. Vijayakanth's Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK),which had contested the previous elections independently,allied with the AIADMK coalition. Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam boycotted the election following a disagreement with Jayalalithaa over seat-sharing. The outgoing Karunanidhi government was noted for the construction of new assembly building in Chennai,execution of various developmental projects,and implementation of programmes including free health care for the poor and issuance of a range of freebies such as color television to all. However,these were heavily overshadowed by other major issues such as incessant power cuts in households and industries,excessive sand mining,increasing prices of essential items,2G spectrum case and undue influence of Karunanidhi's extended family in various aspects of Tamil politics and business and even media.
Jayaram Jayalalithaa was an Indian politician and actress who served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for more than fourteen years over six terms between 1991 and 2016. From 1 January 1988 to 5 December 2016,she was the 5th and longest-serving general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK),a Dravidian party whose cadre revered her as their "Amma" (Mother) and "Puratchi Thalaivi".
Ekiri Sanjeevi Subramanya Raman is an Indian politician with the Tamil Maanila Congress and was formerly MLA for Pallipattu constituency in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. He is a diabetologist in his home town of Pothatturpettai. He represented Pallipattu from 1996–2001 and 2006–2011.
The list of political families of Tamil Nadu state in India.
M. Ramkumar is an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly from papanasam constituency.
