Reddy dissented with Periyar when he converted the political party into the Dravidar Kazhagam.
The General Secretary of the Dravidar Kazhagam, K. Veeramani and the representatives of other parties met the President of India and urged the need for carrying out the recommendations of the Commission.
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K. Veeramani and five thousand members of the party who were involved in this were arrested.
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Conferences were at Patna, Nagpur, and at Allahabad going into the following year in favor of the Mandal Commission Report and in all those Conferences the General Secrety K. Veeramani represented the Dravidar Kazhagam and said that in fairness to the Backward classes the recommendations of the Commission should be totally accepted and the necessary laws for their implementation should be enacted.
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The DK thus became the first fully Dravidian party and would in turn give birth to many other Dravidian parties like the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK),MDMK,DMDK,KMK,PMK etc., over the course of time.
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam | Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam | Kongunadu Munnetra Kazhagam | Dravidar Kazhagam |
Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam is a political organisation and a splinter group of Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam.