Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress
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Tamil Nadu Makkal Congress (Tamil Nadu People's Congress), is a political party
in Tamil Nadu
, India
. It was founded in 1997 by the dissident Congress
leader Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy who quit the party to float his own. This further weakened the local Congress party in the state.
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
in Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It was founded in 1997 by the dissident Congress
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...
leader Vazhapadi K Ramamurthy who quit the party to float his own. This further weakened the local Congress party in the state.