But AIADMK alliance lost in the 2006 Assembly elections and Vaiko’s party could get only 6 seats. He contested the 2006 assembly elections with All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam led by J. After an emphatic win in the polls, and the subsequent repeal of POTA, Vaiko was released from prison. In the following election in 2004, the MDMK split from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance that it was part of since 1999, and joined a coalition led by the Indian National Congress. In 2002, he was arrested by the Government of Tamil Nadu for making a speech supporting the LTTE, under the controversial POTA and spent 18 months in prison. He is well-known for his unequivocal support for the banned LTTE and other organizations fighting for a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.
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He has conducted free medical camps for physically challenged for years and has been instrumental in bringing a welcome change to their lives. He has undergone a month long padayatra in Tamil Nadu, to establish communal harmony, to prevent caste clashes and to create awakening for the interlinking of inter state rivers in India. Along with the villagers, he took clay soil in baskets and loaded it in tractors when the work began under the scorching sun. He launched a 3 day ‘Tank Desilting Program’ in his Village, with the participation of villagers. Till date, more than 80,000 units of blood has been donated to the poor people. He ran a blood donors club which is run by the MDMK party with the name ‘Blood Donors’ Club’. (i) Clarion Call (in English), (ii) Sanganatham, (iii) Porkkalathil, (iv) Ilatchiyappayanam, (v) Yamunaikkavraiyil, (vi) Velvom, (vii) Veerathin Punnagai, (viii) Ithaya Chiragugal, (ix)Paravattum Thamizhisai and (x) Vazharattum Valluvam (all in Tamil) Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests Leader, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Parliamentary Party, Lok Sabha Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Industry Member, Committee on External Affairs and its Sub-Committee-I Member, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table Member, Committee on the Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Member, Railway Convention Committee (two terms) Presidency College and Law College, Chennai (Tamil Nadu) General-Secretary, Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (M.D.M.K.) He is known to be a supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which is banned as a terrorist organisation in 32 countries including India, as a result he was arrested under the Prevention of Terrorist Activities Act (POTA) in 2002 and once-again on 23 October 2008 for sedition. He is the founder of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, a political party that espouses the cause of the Tamil people and Tamil nationalism. His ancestors migrated to Tamil Nadu during the Vijaynagar period. His origin is from the Telugu speaking Kamma (Naidu) community of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in Kallingappatti, Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu in 1944. Gopalsamy, also known as Vaiko, is a prominent politician in Tamil Nadu, in south India.
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