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Secretary-General
  
E. R. Eswaran

Founded
  
21 March 2013

Founder
  
E. R. Eswaran

Headquarters
  
Erode

Ideology
  
Indigenism

Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi

Alliance
  
National Democratic Alliance

Live kongunadu makkal desiya katchi leader eswaran press meet on elections


Kongunadu Makkal Desiya Katchi (KMDK) is a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The party's vote base is mainly concentrated in the Kongu Nadu region of Tamil Nadu. It was a splinter party of Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam (KMK).

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History

On 21 March 2013, E. R. Eswaran launched new Party Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi, he also became the General Secretary of new party. He contested the May 2009 Loksabha elections as a KMK candidate in the Coimbatore constituency and came third, securing more than one lakh votes. He also came third in the 2009 by election for Thondamuthur Assembly Constituency.

2014 Lok Sabha election

It will contest the 2014 Lok Sabha alliance as a part of National Democratic Alliance led by the BJP. Party General Secretary E. R. Eswaran contested in Pollachi Lok Sabha, the lone seat allotted for the party from the alliance and finished second with 276,118 votes. In 2016 election they may ally with Naam Tamilar Katchi.

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Kongunadu Makkal Desia Katchi Wikipedia