After the death of his father Vaasan merged the TMC with the congress in 2002. K Vasan was elected without opposition as the President of the TMC by the MLA's, MP's and senior officials of the party. G.K Vaasan's era (2001- present) Merge with Congress Īfter the death of his father G K Moopanar in 2001, G. This was especially considering the fact that Moopanar only founded the party to support the DMK in the general elections of 1996. Moopanar argued that he had committed himself to secular values and would never endorse then BJP, even under pressure from his then major ally, late DMK leader M Karunanidhi. In 1999, Moopanar refused to support the BJP-led government's vote of trust in Lok Sabha, which finally caused the collapse of the Vajpayee government due to the lack of just one vote. In 1998, G K Moopanar's efforts ensured to declared a classical status to Tamil language by then Union Government in the year 2004. In recognizing his contribution to the nation, Indian postal department commemorated him by releasing a stamp in 2010.
Moopanar was committed to secularism and cultural pluralism, who completely devoted himself for the service to humanity. K Moopanar along with other important national leaders identified the then Rajiv Gandhi for the top job. Kamarajar identified Indra Gandhi for the leadership and G. The dramatic rise and spread of the Dravidian movement in the state shrunk the Congress, once the largest political party in the state. Moopanar who was faithful to the parent body was made the president of the Congress party in Tamil Nadu. In the early 1970s Indra Gandhi wished to integrate both Indian National Congress (O) and Indian National Congress (I) and merged both the parties. Moopanar in the year 1996 sensed the need to formulate a political party, which satisfies the regional aspiration and ethos and formed the Tamil Maanila Congress. The party born out of historical need to defend the principal system of transparent, clean and civilized politics. K Moopanar to be crowned for top leadership yet he preferred to identify the leaders for top job and chose to work in strengthening the party. But there have been an instances, where G. K Moopanar was an affable Political Strategist and a Trouble Shooter who never stooped to power rather led a pure and simple life of an ordinary citizen. Later, a new regional political party has been formed by Congressmen in the name of Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress, owing to loyalty to G. History G.K Moopanar's era (1996 - 2001) įollowing the high command's decision to restore relations with the AIADMK, Moopanar's followers in Congress(I) formed a new party at Thiruparankundram on March 29, 1996. The embossed leaders on the party flag are Indian freedom fighter Kamarajar and founding father G K Moopanar. The colour Orange represents sacrifice, white represents peace and green represents prosperity. The flag is similar to that of the Indian National Congress party and the Indian National Flag. The party and the founder were crowned for taking a principled position in 1999 to reserve its political support to then ruling Union Government by not supporting the BJP.
Tamil Maanila Congress (M) is existing in a political era of aggressive and conflict oriented politics. He strongly believed in grassroots democracy with people as the stakeholders in all the developmental projects. K Moopanar always maintained to preserve the political decency & avoided a culture of violence and divisive politics.
The party strongly believes the need to realm India's pluralist traditions.
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