Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

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Party flag of the MDMK

The Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) ( Tamil : மறுமலர்ச்சித் திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகம் Maṟumalarccit Tirāviṭa Muṉṉēṟṟak Kaḻakam [ ˈmarɯmalʌrtʃi ˈd̪raːʋiɖə ˈmunːeːtːrə kːaɻəɦʌm advanced ] is a renaissance regional state of Tamil in the Indian federal state of Tamil ], for example: the Indian federal state Tamil .

Alignment

The MDMK was founded in 1994 by the politician V. Gopalswamy (called Vaiko ) as a spin-off from the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party . The Tamil nationalist DMK has dominated Tamil Nadu politics together with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) that emerged from it since the late 1960s. Before the founding of the MDMK, Gopalswamy had been a member of the Rajya Sabha , the entire Indian upper house, for DMK since 1978 and was traded in the party as the successor to DMK leader M. Karunanidhi . After internal quarrels, however, he left the DMK and founded his own party.

The MDMK differs from the DMK primarily in its more radical nationalist position. For example, she openly supported the Tamil rebel organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the civil war in Sri Lanka . As a result, party leader V. Gopalaswamy was arrested in 2002 for violating anti-terrorism legislation.

The party symbol of the MDMK is a top, the party colors are red-black-red.

Election results

When it first took part in elections after the party was founded, the MDMK did not join any of the electoral alliances in which the parties divide the constituencies among themselves because of the prevailing majority voting rights. Therefore, in 1996 and 2001, despite a share of the vote of 5.8 and 4.7 percent respectively, it failed to make it into parliament of the state of Tamil Nadu. The same thing happened to her in the simultaneous elections in the Union Territory of Puducherry (Pondicherry). In the run-up to the state elections in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in 2006, however, the MDMK joined the party alliance under the leadership of the ruling AIADMK and nominated candidates in 35 of the 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK alliance lost the election, so that the result of the MDMK turned out to be worse than hoped, but the party was able to move into the state parliament for the first time with six MPs. In the election in Pondicherry, the MDMK ran in three of 30 constituencies, of which it won one. Before the next election in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in 2011, the AIADMK and MDMK could not agree on the distribution of the constituencies. In response, the MDMK withdrew from the party alliance and decided to boycott the elections.

Since its inception, the MDMK has run in all all-India parliamentary elections in Tamil Nadu and has been more successful than the state elections. In 1996 she entered the competition independently and failed to make it into the Lok Sabha . Before the next Lok Sabha election in 1998 , the MDMK joined the victorious National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The MDMK contested five constituencies in Tamil Nadu and won three of them. In the new election in 1999 , which again won the NDA, the MDMK was able to improve its result with four out of five constituencies won. After the election, the party participated in the BJP-led Atal Bihari Vajpayee 's government and received two post of state secretary . In the next parliamentary election in India in 2004 , the MDMK joined the camp of the United Progressive Alliance led by the Congress party . She found herself again on the side of the election winners and was successful in all four constituencies in which she ran. In the 2009 election , the MDMK changed camp again, this time to the left-wing Third Front , and won only one of four constituencies.

Individual evidence

  1. Frontline 7.15pm (July 20th - August 2nd, 2002): "A crackdown in Tamil Nadu".
  2. Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 1996 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamilnadu (PDF; 1.4 MB) and Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamilnadu. (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  3. Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 1996 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry (PDF; 194 kB) and Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry. (PDF; 249 kB)
  4. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 2006 to the Legislative Assembly of Tamilnadu. (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  5. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Election, 2006 to the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry. (PDF; 378 kB)
  6. ^ The Hindu, March 20, 2011: "MDMK quits AIADMK alliance".
  7. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Elections, 1996 to the Eleventh Lok Sabha. Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) . (PDF; 2.2 MB)
  8. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Elections, 1998 to the Twelfth Lok Sabha. Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) . (PDF; 900 kB)
  9. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Elections, 1999 to the Thirteenth Lok Sabha. Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) . (PDF; 899 kB)
  10. ^ Election Commission of India: Statistical Report on General Elections, 2004 to the 14th Lok Sabha. Volume I (National and State Abstracts & Detailed Results) . (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  11. ^ Election Commission of India: General Elections, 2009 (15th Lok Sabha). 13 - Performance of State Parties. (PDF; 61 kB)

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