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	Tamil Maanila Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tamil Maanila Congress was a political party in Tamil Nadu.
		It was started by G K Moopanar by breaking away from the Indian National Congress protesting the decision of the party high command to form an alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.
		It was later decided to merge the party back with the Indian National Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_Maanila_Congress (124 words)

	Tamil Maanila Kamraj Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tamil Maanila Kamraj Congress, a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
		Formed in December 2002 through a split in the Tamil Maanila Congress.
		Five members of the Tamil Nadu legislative assembly have joined the party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tamil_Maanila_Kamraj_Congress (102 words)

	Congress - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Congress is the name of the main legislative body in a state that operates under a congressional system of government.
		A congress is different from a parliament (Westminster System of Government) in that legislative initiative is vested into it.
		The All Ceylon Tamil Congress of Sri Lanka
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Congress (347 words)

	Intamm - Politics Tamil Maanila Congress
		Tamil Nadu state politics had witnessed new turn of events in the recent part just before the general elections in 1996.
		The Congress (I) in the state faced a major split with G.K.Moopanar coming out of the party with his band of followers of TNCCI functionatics had been demanding the Cong.(I) high command to snap its ties with AIADMK as they were not given due respect.
		TMC committment was to unseat Jayalalitha, Moopanar forged on alliance with DMK to defeat Jayalalitha and AIADMK, with cinema actor Rajinikanth openly supporting this combine thru private satellite television network.
	www.intamm.com /politics/tmc/tmc.htm (541 words)

	rediff.com: Tamil Maanila Congress' game plan for assembly elections
		Following Tamil Maanila Congress founder G K Moopanar's meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi, talk about the emergence of a Third Front is making the rounds in Tamil Nadu.
		With the Congress' reputation in the state mostly intact, and by reviving memories of the 'Kamaraj rule' of the fifties and the early sixties, the TMC hopes to capitalize on the clean image of Moopanar and the reputation of leaders such as former union finance minister P Chidambaram.
		Simultaneously, the Tamil voter has become disenchanted with the DMK government and his honeymoon with the 'Vajpayee phenomenon' too may have begun to sour.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/jul/27tn1.htm (611 words)

	Congress Sandesh - September, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Congress Party is fully in concurrence with the orders of the Supreme Court that candidates must disclose all relevant information called for, particularly regarding convictions and charges for offences, assets and bank balances, and liabilities and overdues.
		The Congress Party believes that such information must be disclosed by all candidates at the time of filing nomination and prior to elections.
		The Congress Party is in disagreement only with the directions of the Election Commission vesting Returning Officers with the powers to investigate the authenticity of the information given and to reject nomination papers on grounds of incomplete or false information.
	www.congresssandesh.com /september-2002/report4.html (455 words)

	Congress Sandesh - August, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Let’s Bring Back Kamaraj Rule in TN Congress President Sonia Gandhi waving to the crowd at a meeting on 14 Aug. in Madurai where the Congress and the TMC merger was announced.
		Gandhi not only assured all the erstwhile TMC men "due respect and positions" but also assigned them the task of "re-establishing" Congress rule in Tamil Nadu where the party has been out of power in the past 35 years now.
		Formalising the merger of the Puducherry Makkal Congress with the Congress, she said that never before the country had such a "heartless" government at the Centre.
	www.congresssandesh.com /august-2002/report3.html (570 words)

	A revolt in Tamil Nadu
		Chidambaram, one of the founders of the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and a former Union Finance Minister, revolted against the party's decision to align with the AIADMK led by former Chief Minister Jayalalitha and formed the Tamil Maanila Congress Democr atic Front (TMCDF).
		As the TMC executive committee met at the party's headquarters in Chennai under the presidentship of G.K. Moopanar on March 21 to discuss the issue, leaders denounced Chidambaram and a crowd of TMC cadres outside raised slogans against him and distribute d pamphlets criticising him.
		Leaders of the TMC take Chidambaram's challenge lightly, saying that he would not be able to make a dent because he was "not a field worker who mixed with party workers and understood their sentiments." No district president, town president or block pres ident has thrown in his lot with him.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1807/18070380.htm (1825 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		Congress spokesperson Jaipal Reddy, whom Jayalalithaa singled out for attack at her recent press conference, will preside over the merger of old Kamaraj followers in the state Janata Dal under G.A. Vadivelu with the Congress in Chennai on September 23.
		Pradesh Congress sources said the Congress must come to terms with the erosion of its traditional vote-banks in the state, which included the major OBCs such as the Thevars, the Vanniyars, the Dalits and the minorities.
		Congress party sources said it was time that TNCC an AICC functionaries took stock of the ground realities in Tamil Nadu, particularly after Jayalalithaa’s declaration that the Congress didn’t “even have a ghost of a chance” to return to power in the state.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1020909/asp/nation/story_1181476.asp (367 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Pondicherry News : Tamil Maanila Congress legislator joins Congress
		Pondicherry: Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) party legislator Theni C. Jayakumar, who got elected from Villianoor constituency to the territorial Assembly in the 2001 elections, joined the ruling Congress in the presence of the PCC leader P. Shanmugham and the Chief Minister N. Rangasamy at the party office here on Monday.
		Jayakumar was the TMC (Moopanar) party president, although the TMC merged with the Congress in 2001 in Tamil Nadu.
		With his joining the Congress, there is all possibility of his being fielded as the Congress candidate in Villianor, which had been assigned among the 16 constituencies to the party in the accord reached with the DMK in Chennai on Sunday.It could not be known immediately whether Mr.
	www.hindu.com /2006/04/11/stories/2006041104960300.htm (311 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> TMC top brass ratifies decision to merge with Cong
		Chennai: Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) general council, the top policy- making body of the party, on July 8 unanimously ratified the party leadership's decision to merge the party with the Congress.
		Later talking to reporters, Vasan said the Congress high command had assured him that due respect would be given to TMC men in the unified party.
		TMC would accept anybody appointed by Sonia Gandhi as the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president and his party had not put any condition for the merger.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/07/08/08tmc.html (200 words)

	India Today States [Tamil Nadu: Wordless Duel]
		The TMC chief makes no secret either of his wish to keep the BJP at bay or his view that the Congress alone has the capacity for such an action.
		For one, TMC leaders will be seen as being ungrateful to Karunanidhi and his party whose alliance alone gave them their remarkable political relevance in Chennai as well as Delhi after they broke from the Congress.
		They can join the Congress and collapse in Tamil Nadu, or they can continue with the alliance with the DMK and defend it in its hour of need, suppressing all qualms of their Congress conscience.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/08121997/tnadu.html (1154 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Tamil Maanila Congress may chart an independent course soon
		With Tamil Maanila Congress chief G Karupaiah Moopanar proposing Vice-President K R Narayanan for the presidency, and taking a potshot at the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu in his Republic Day message, the party is getting ready to chart out an independent political course.
		He would like the Congress to join the United Front government, but he is not averse to backing his old party if the UF government were to fall and it needed the TMC's support to form a government.
		The TMC is still an ally of the DMK, and Moopanar is expected to campaign for the ruling party.
	www.rediff.com /news/feb/01sathya.htm (788 words)

	New alignments in Tamil Nadu
		TMC president G.K. Moopanar reacted tersely: if the relationship between the DMK and the BJP had been finalised, it would mean the end of his party's ties with the DMK.
		Attention is now on the TMC because Moopanar has declared that his party is opposed to the communalism of the BJP and the corruption of the AIADMK in equal measure.
		Congress sources said Jayalalitha was keen that the TMC should be brought in to the Congress-AIADMK fold.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1613/16130350.htm (1269 words)

	Congress
		The Congress of the Philippines (Filipino: Kongreso ng Pilipinas) is the legislative branch of the Philippine government.
		The National Congress of Ecuador is the unicameral legislature of Ecuador
		Congress is an alternative name for a large national or international academic conference.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/congress.html (380 words)

	Tamil Nadu : Congress-TMC may form a Third Front,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) and the Congress party which has an alliance with the AIADMK in Tamil Nadu have found it rather hard to propitiate the supremo of the AIADMK, Ms.
		In Tamil Nadu the general opinion is in favour of one of the two Dravadian parties, the DMK or the AIADMK, and the formation of the Third Front is fraught with the possibility of being rejected by the people.
		The TMC is not in favour of the DMK front because it includes the BJP which it considers communal.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/tamil-nadu-congress--6227.html (412 words)

	Chawla on Jain Commission Report
		While conceding that both the Congress government at the Centre and M.G. Ramachandran's AIADMK government in the state were responsible for the initial impetus to Tamil militancy, Jain holds the DMK guilty of encouraging and assisting the LTTE even after the Indo-Sri Lankan accord of 1987 pitted the Indian Army against the Tigers.
		According to the report, 1989 signified "the perpetuation of the general political trend of indulging the Tamil militants on Indian soil and tolerance of their wide-ranging criminal and anti-national activities...
		These were Kiruban alias Salim (in charge of the Tamil Nadu unit), Menon (in charge of Trichy), Romeo (in charge of Salem), Aruna and Radha (navigators) and Kesavan (in charge of shore operations).
	www.tamilnation.org /intframe/india/rajiv/97chawlaonjain.htm (2705 words)

	Chidambaram drops 'Tamil Maanila'- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		chennai: the tamil maanila congress democratic front, a splinter movement of the tamil maanila congress, launched by former union minister p.
		this was announced at the first general body meeting here which also elected chidambaram as the general secretary of yet another incarnation of the congress which was in power in tamil nadu from 1947 to 1967 when the dravidian party, dmk, captured power from the congress.
		moopanar to form the tamil maanila congress in 1996 when the latter broke away from the congress opposing an alliance with aiadmk whose leader jayalalitha was facing corruption charges.
	www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?art_Id=589099330 (290 words)

	Who Rules India? Part 1 (Indian democracy, constitution of India and central government)
		Congress and its offshoot Congress (I) were the only parties that ruled Indian alone without the help of other parties.
		Tamil Nadu's DMK leaders often made fun of Congress leaders of Tamil Nadu as going on supplication trips to New Delhi begging for fiscal grants and aid for the state.
		Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi who used to make fun of former Congress Chief Minister Kamaraj of making frequent "begging trips" to New Delhi is now begging the Indian Government for more power and funds to the state but to no avail.
	www.geocities.com /tamiltribune/00/1101.html (5417 words)

	Teaching South Asia
		(AIDMK) and Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) in Tamil Nadu ar
		The decline of the Congress Party is not simply evident in the electoral returns, but more importantly, in the way the party and its leaders perceive their role in the political process.
		The way the Congress Party was defeated in 1977, 1989 and 1996 or the opposition parties in 1980 and 1991, one has to admit an element of sophistication in the voting strategies of the Indian citizens.
	www.mssu.edu /projectsouthasia/tsa/VIN1/Sarangi.htm (5314 words)

	India - News - Congress, TMC To Evolve Joint Poll Strategy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		After a meeting with TMC president G K Moopanar, Mukherjee said the discussion was useful and they decided to work together.
		Though the Congress and the TMC would work together, there would not be any collective bargaining in the seat-sharing talks with the AIADMK, he said.
		Asked if the DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi's offer of 40 seats to the TMC in the coming elections would pose any serious problem in the working together of both the Congress and the TMC, Mukherjee said "I do not think so".
	www3.estart.com /india/news/congtmc.html (231 words)

	TAMIL TRIBUNE article on life of Tamil Nadu nationalist poet and recent history of Tamil Nadu
		Recently Tamil Nadu government nationalized the books of Bharathidasan, Appathuraiyar and Deveneya Pavanar and gave sizable monies to their families but the same government refused to help them in the 1960's and 1970's when they were suffering.
		Many Tamils who do not know the extent of what he has created, ridicule him as one with no mass appeal; even they were surprised at the number of people who came to pay their final respects after his death.
		While most Tamils do not know the full extent of Perunchiththiranar's work and, especially, its potential impact on the future course of Tamil Nadu history and thus the history of the Indian subcontinent itself, there was one powerful organization that realized it.
	www.geocities.com /tamiltribune/99/1001.html (4993 words)

	Tamil Guardian Archives - APRIL 08 , 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Tamil civilians in Jaffna continued to suffer casualties as the Sri Lanka armed forces stepped up shelling and air strikes on areas not under their control, reports from the northern peninsula said.
		Large numbers of Tamil civilians are being used as human shields by the SLA as amid the heaviest fighting of the conflict to date.
		Tamil refugees who fled for their lives must be accepted on the Indian shores and should not be hurt in any way, Veeramani added.
	www.tamilguardian.com /AJUNE03.htm (14060 words)

	'Indians must celebrate if Jaffna falls' - TamilCanadian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When 10 soldiers from Tamil Nadu laid down their lives in Kargil last year, I was the first to go to their homes and comfort their families.
		Therefore, the father figure of Tamils, Prabhakaran, concluded that coexistence with the Sinhalese is not possible.
		When Kumaratunga tells her army "kill the Tamils as the Sinhala kings killed the Tamil kings", she is widely welcomed.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /pageview.php?ID=2664&SID=125 (1349 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		Former Union Minister and Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) leader P Chidambaram today denied Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s charge that the TMC was targetting the ruling Dravida Munnetra Khzhagam (DMK) in its poll campaign.
		He said the BJP-led alliance in Tamil Nadu was virtually the same as in last year’s election, except that the DMK had replaced the AIADMK.
		Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Meira Kumar today said the Kargil conflict was still inconclusive and that the Government was underestimating the fact that it had spread elsewhere.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /99aug24/national.htm (1726 words)

	Congress Biography,info
		In politics, Congress ("a gathering of people") is the name of the main legislative body in a state that operates under a congressional system of government.
		In non-political usage congress is a term applied to a large grouping of people meeting together with common interests or concerns.
		A Chess congress is a chess tournament, in one city, where a large number of contestants gather to play competitive chess over a limited period of time; typically one day to one week.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Congress (391 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		Ms Jayalalitha said it would be nice if the TMC and the Congress took an early decision on the question of alliance but she did not set a deadline.
		On Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M. Karunanidhi’s remark that the doors were still open for the TMC to join the DMK-led front, Ms Jayalalitha said this showed Mr Karunandihi’s “unstable nature and his fear of electoral defeat”.
		The Congress tonight virtually rejected AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalitha’s proposal for a power-sharing arrangement with the PMK in Pondicherry asserting that the party’s supremacy should be maintained in the union territory.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010307/main2.htm (1304 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Congress Working Committee, meeting here on Saturday at 10 AM for Sharad Pawar's briefing on his talks with AIADMK supremo J Jayalalitha and to finalise candidates for the Goa Assembly elections, is likely to discuss four conditions reportedly put forward by the TMC for the merger.
		The TMC's conditions are: Moopanar become the AICC Secretary-General, his nominee succeed Tindivanam Ramamurthy as the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee chief, he be the ultimate authority in deciding candidates in Tamil Nadu and properties of TMC go to a trust and not to the Congress.
		They are campaigning against TMC's conditions for merger into the Congress as they claim the TMC workers had already begun deserting Moopanar in large number and as such his clout of vote bank would be finished by the time the Lok Sabha elections are held.
	www.angelfire.com /in/jalnews/145992.txt (280 words)

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