All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam


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Leader	Jayalalithaa Jayaram

Founded	October 17, 1972
Main Office	#226, Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Roayapettah, Chennai - 600014


Alliance	National Democratic Alliance

Ideology	Social Democratic/Populist

Publications


Website	www.aiadmkindia.org

See also	Politics of India Political parties in India Elections in India

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All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (Tamil: அனைத்து இந்திய அண்ணா திராவிட முன்னேற்ற கழகம்) is a regional political party in Tamil Nadu state in India. The party was founded by MG 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 MG Ramachandran.

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1 MGR era
2 Succession crisis
3 Jayalalitha era
4 Election history
- 4.1 Tamil Nadu
- 4.2 Pondicherry
5 External links

[edit] MGR era

The party was founded in 1972 by MG Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR), a veteran star of the Tamil film industry, and a popular politician, as a breakaway outfit from the DMK led by M Karunanidhi, the then chief minister, owing to differences between the two. The relations between the two parties have since been heavily tempered with mutual contempt.

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The government led by DMK, was dismissed by a Central promulgation, after MGR filed a petition seeking enquiry into corruption charges. The Central Government was held by 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.

The tables were turned in 1980, when the government under MGR was dismissed, by the Congress government at the centre, after the coalition of congress and DMK won majority of parliament seats from Tamil Nadu forming the central government in New Delhi. However, AIADMK bounced back to power in the ensuing elections to win the state government.

In 1984, even with MGR's failing health and subsequent hospitalization abroad, the party still managed to win the state elections. 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 a mythical status of a phoenix. MGR continued to enjoy popular support in his third tenure, which ended in his demise on December 24, 1987.

[edit] Succession crisis

Subsequently, MGR's wife Janaki Ramachandran rose to the party's leadership and led the government as the state's first woman chief minister till 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. J. Jayalalithaa, a former Tamil actress, led the second faction. The state elections in 1989, saw DMK rising back to power with Karunanidhi at the helm. The faction led by Jayalalitha and Janaki merged in 1988. The DMK government was dismissed in 1990by the central government led by Chandrasekhar, an ally of AIADMK at that time, on accusations that the constitutional machinery in the state had broken down, .

[edit] Jayalalitha era

In the elections of 1991, ADMK was swept to power. Many political observers, have ascribed the landslide victory to the "sympathy-wave" arising out of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 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. But, public anger aimed at her as a result of the various corruption charges, ensured that she lost by a landlside in the next election in 1996. DMK, swept to power and held power till 2001, which once again saw Jayalalithaa regaining the mantle.

In her second term as chief minister, Ms. Jayalalitha avoided the blunders she committed during the first term. However, she was plagued by the corruption cases related to her earlier rule and had to sit out of the government for some time. After having cleared by courts she became chief minister again. She is accused of arrogant behaviour and not respecting colleagues and opposition leaders.

She undertook economic reforms and took many unpopular decisions such as banning of lottery tickets, restricting the liquor and sand quarying business to government agencies and banning of tobacco product sales. She also took ruthless action against gangsters, trouble makers, striking government employees and brought discipline and law and order to the stage.

However, the party lost all the seats in the elections in the Parliamentary elections held in 2004 to the opposition coalition comprising of all major opposition parties in the state. Since then the government is on a path to woo the electorate with populist schemes with an eye on the assembly elections scheduled for early 2006.

In the assembly elections of 2006, in spite of media speculations of a hung assembly, AIADMK was pushed out of power owing to big sweep by the DMK lead by M Karunanidhi. It only managed to hold on to 61 assembly seats.

[edit] Election history

[edit] Tamil Nadu

Year	General Election	Votes Polled	Seats Won
1977	6th Assembly	5,194,876	130
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		61

[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