The Tamil Nadu Communist Party was a

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Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...

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. The party was founded by dissident Communist Party of India leader Manali C. Kandasami on 10 July 1973. The split had been provoked by opposition to the alliance between CPI and the

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, in particular as the Congress Party was seen as trying to unseat the

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; DMK) is a political party based in the state of Tamil Nadu where it is currently the ruling party having a comfortable majority without coalition support and the union territory of Puducherry where it is curre ...

government in Tamil Nadu.''Winnipeg Free Press'',
Top Communists Quit Indian Party
', 4 September 1973, p. 15 The party held two seats in the

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It has a strength of 234 members of whom are democratically elected using the First-past-the-post system. The presiding officer of the Assembl ...

; represented by Manali C. Kandasami and A.K. Subbiah. The party was allied with the DMK. The party became defunct when Manali C. Kandasami died.

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