MGR founded Anna DMK.

 MGR founded Anna DMK.

In the 1999 Lok Sabha elections, he allied with BJP and won two seats, rising to the position of Deputy Minister in the central government. Later, he joined Congress and became the Tamil Nadu Congress President in 2016. T. Pandian T. Pandian aligned himself with the Communist Party of India from his student days and was active in it. When S.A. Dange and Mohideen formed the Unified Communist Party in 1989, he joined it. In 1989, he was the only member that party had in the Lok Sabha. He was T. Pandian. He also served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly twice on behalf of that party. In 2000, he returned to the Communist Party of India. G. Karuppiah Moopanar A leader who earned the trust of Indira–Rajiv to resolve issues within the party. He served as the General Secretary of the Congress party for eight years. In the 1989 assembly elections, he was Congress's candidate for Chief Minister. In the 1996 assembly elections, differing from Narasimha Rao's decision that the alliance with Jayalalithaa should continue, he broke away from Congress and founded the Tamil Maanila Congress. But in the next election, in 2001, forming an alliance with the same Jayalalithaa was an irony of the times. Professor Thiran Thiran was the leader of the Vanniyar Sangam when it founded PMK. He was expelled from PMK in 1998. He then joined AIADMK, and 21 years later, after Jayalalithaa's death, he left AIADMK and returned to PMK. Vaazhappadi Kuththu Ramamoorthy Vaazhappadi Ramamoorthy, who served five times as a Lok Sabha member on behalf of the Congress party. He was part of the Narasimha Rao cabinet; when the AIADMK-Congress alliance was formed in 1996, he left Congress and joined the Tiwari Congress. When the Tiwari Congress merged with Congress, he broke away from it and founded the Tamil Nadu Rajiv Congress. He contested independently in the 2001 elections. The party lost in all constituencies. He dissolved the party and returned to Congress. Palaniyappan Chidambaram Today a critic of BJP; but in 2001, he contested in alliance with the same BJP. Opposing a merger with Jayalalithaa, he broke away from Moopanar and founded the Tamil Maanila Janata Dal, joining the NDA led by DMK in Tamil Nadu. That alliance did not last long. In 2004, he rejoined Congress, and three years ago, he contested in alliance with AIADMK—the same AIADMK he had harshly criticized before. Vaiko Once a fiery warrior dear to Karunanidhi. Later, he was expelled from DMK on charges of conspiracy. He founded Marumalarchi DMK; opposing the family politics of DMK that positioned Stalin as heir, he formed several alliances over many years. Today, he is a staunch ally of the DMK-led front; one who openly showers praise on Stalin. On the stage of Tamil Nadu politics, leaders can raise their own flags, declare their own revolutions, and stage any spectacles by putting forward their own justices. But time mercilessly tosses them aside and sends them back to where they started again. Is this why life is a circle? [Considering space in the newspaper, I have omitted the references to M. Po. Si. and Thiran in this. Dina Mani's good wishes, the web link for the article—these are included in the comments section.]