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Dhinakaran names his party Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam after Jayalalithaa

Skips, Tamil Nadu's Budget for 2018-19, unveils party flag and the pressure cooker election symbol in Madurai

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AIADMK leader TTV Dhinakaran and his supporters during the swearing-in ceremony as MLA following his victory in the Dr Radhakrishnan Nagar Assembly bypoll, at the Secretariat | PTI Photo

T E Narasimhan Chennai
T T V Dhinakaran, a rebel leader of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and an independent member of the Tamil Nadu state Assembly, on Thursday set up his own party and named it the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam after former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who was fondly referred to as ‘Amma’.
 
Dhinakaran, who had earlier been sidelined from the AIADMK, also unveiled his new party’s flag in Madurai district.
 
To loosely translate the name of the new party, ‘Amma’ refers to mother (Jayalaithaa), Makkal means people, Munnetra means development, and Kazhagam means party.
 
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