ADMK
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அனைத்திந்திய அண்ணா திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகம்
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
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| Abbreviation | AIADMK |
| Founder | M. G. Ramachandran |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Split from | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam |
| Headquarters | 226, Avvai Shanmugam Salai, Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India–600014. |
| Ideology |
Social democracy, Populism, Paternalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| ECI Status | State Party |
| Alliance |
National Democratic Alliance (1998-1999 & 2004-2006) Third Front (2008–present) |
| Seats in Lok Sabha |
37 / 545
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| Seats in Rajya Sabha |
13 / 245
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| Election symbol | |
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| Website | |
| aiadmk.com | |
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) (lit. All India Anna Dravidian Progress Federation) is an Indian political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It is currently in power in Tamil Nadu and is the third largest party in the Indian Parliament. It is a Dravidian party and was founded by M. G. Ramachandran (popularly known as MGR) on 17 October 1972 as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). From 1989 to 2016, AIADMK was led by Late J. Jayalalithaa, who served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on several occasions. Coalitions headed by the party have won the elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly seven times, making it the most successful political outfit in the state's history. The party headquarters is located in Royapettah, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, which was donated to the party in 1986 by Janaki Ramachandran, MGR's wife.
After the death of Jayalalithaa in December 2016, her close companion, Sasikala was chosen as the general secretary of the party.
The party was founded in 1972 as Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK) by MGR, a veteran Tamil film star and a popular politician, as a breakaway faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) led by M. Karunanidhi, the then chief minister of Tamil Nadu, owing to serious differences between the two. Later, MGR prefixed the All India (AI) tag to the party's name. Since its inception, the relationship between the AIADMK and DMK has been marked by mutual contempt. MGR used his fan network for building the party cadre, and estimates claim his party recruited more than a million members from the first two months of creation. The party tasted victory for the first time by winning the Dindigul parliamentary by-election in 1973 and also won the Coimbatore assembly by-election a year later. AIADMK grew close to the Congress by supporting the Emergency which occurred between 1975 and 1977.
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