Chennai: On the occasion of the 22nd founding anniversary of the DMDK, the General Secretary of the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam, Premalatha Vijayakant, has written a letter to party workers.
In it, she said, “Our Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam was started with the noble aim of providing honest and transparent people’s governance, free from bribery and corruption.
Our party has completed 21 years since its inception. Today, we are stepping into the 22nd year. After functioning for many years as a fan club and a welfare movement, in line with the wishes of the fans, a flag was introduced for the fan club in the year 2000.
In 2005, in the city of Madurai, our beloved leader Vijayakanth founded the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam. Subsequently, in the 2006 Legislative Assembly election, we formed an alliance with the people and with God, secured 8.33 percent of the votes, and recorded our first victory in the Vriddhachalam Assembly constituency. In the 2009 Parliamentary election, we received 10.38 percent of the votes.
In the 2011 Legislative Assembly election, 29 MLAs won on behalf of DMDK, and our leader Vijayakanth became the Leader of the Opposition. Achieving the status of Leader of the Opposition within 6 years of starting the party was an accomplishment our party earned through the hard work of its cadres. Since the day our party was founded, it has been our DMDK cadres who have taken the party flag across Tamil Nadu.
The dedication of our volunteers, who achieved a record by carrying out wall advertisements across Tamil Nadu, is forever memorable. The day our party was founded became a major milestone in Tamil Nadu’s political history. The fact that 2.8 million people attended that conference is still regarded as a historic record.
Let us all come together and celebrate this historic day by paying tribute to our beloved leader Vijayakanth, who stood by us always and guided both us and our party. It is our duty to achieve the ideals and principles for which our leader founded the party. For that, let us all unite on this day and take a pledge.
For the first time this year, in 2026, we have secured our first member of Parliament. Likewise, this year in 2026, we have once again won the Virudhachalam Assembly constituency and made Vijayakanth’s voice resonate in the Assembly once again!
“Our leader was born as a human, lived as a saint, and remains divine. His fame and humanity, his attachment to the people, his affection, and his principles will remain etched in the hearts of the people. He lived, he was, and he will continue to live in everyone’s hearts,” said Premalatha Vijayakanth.
