DRAVIDIAN POLITICS

Dravidians are people mainly from Southern India and Northeastern Sri Lanka. Dravidians were envisaged as early inhabitants of India who had been partially displaced and assimilated by Aryan language speaking populations.

Tamil Nadu is one of the prominent Dravidian groups and the state is known for its Dravidian politics. The first party that originated from the dravidian people is called DMK ( Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam).

Annadurai is the man who founded DMK on September 19th in the year 1949, with the help of few others. Karunanidhi (the present chief minister and president of DMK) joined the party later. Karunanidhi is a great poet writer. Karunanidhi and MGR (great idol of tamil cinema) were best friends. After the demise of Annadurai, Karunanidhi took over as the president of DMK in the year 1969. The star image of MGR (M.G. Ramachandran) raised sky high and he became the topmost actor in Tamil cinema. Using that image he entered in to the politics and joined DMK. Before joining DMK he was in congress.

MGR could make a place in the people’s heart as a star and as a politician. He was the God. For this popularity he was rewarded with the ministry. "As we all know in the politics there are no permanent enemies and there are no permanent friends". With many things happening around and because of ego clashes between MGR and Karunanidhi, Karunanidhi decides to expel MGR from the party. This was the major turn around in the Dravidian politics.

Then MGR formed new party known as AIADMK(All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam)in the year 1972 with his followers. The present president of AIADMK is J.Jayalalitha(associate of MGR). Within of few years MGR became the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in the year 1979. He ruled for few years. After the demise of MGR in the year 1987, J.Jayalalitha took over as the president of AIADMK party .

After this many smaller Dravidian parties came into existence but they had short life.