Ramadoss vs. Anbumani — the father-son feud in Tamil Nadu’s Pattali Makkal Katchi | Explained
The story so far: Madras Supreme Court’s Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) founder. S. Ramadoss and his son. After an attempt to mediate through an ceasefire between Anbumani Ramadoss, the party’s general physical meeting was gathered by Mr. Anbumani, the next day (August 9) was held in Mamalllapuram for the first time. It was decided that Mr. Anbumani would continue as a party president for a year until the next party elections in August 2026.
Pattali Makkal Katchi’s ongoing leadership fight between Mr. Ramadoss and Mr. Anbumani shocked the squad and created a division within the party and caused conflict – from senior leadership to base. There are two office carriers groups that claim to be PMK office carriers in their strong regions.
When did Ramadoss-Anbumani spat begin?
During the party’s special general council meeting in Pattanur in Villapuram region on 28 December 2024, the father and son were for the first time when he announced as the head of the youth wing of the party, the grandson of Mr. Ramadoss, P. Mukidan (son of Ramadoss’s eldest daughter Gandhimathi). Mr. Anbumani said that Mr. Mukdan (also his father -in -law) joined the party only four months ago and was “very soon”. Mr. Ramadoss rejected it and even asked Mr. Anbumani to leave the party if he could not work according to his wishes. The next day, Mr. Anbumani called his father at Thailapuram residence and then he said that discussions or discussions were normal during the General Council meetings. However, the conflict is not over here.
Months later, Dr. Ramadoss announced his decision to dismiss Mr. Anbumani from his position as a party president and redesigned his son as ‘the Chairman of the Work’ at a press conference at the Thailapuram housing on April 10, 2025. Mr. Anbumani claimed that he would continue to be the president of the party because the PMK was approved by the General Council of the PMK.
Ramadoss-Anbumani Rift is wide
During the Vanniyar Youth Conference, which shared Dais with Mr. Anbumani, after a 12 -year gap in Mamallapuram on May 11, Mr. Ramadoss, who was seen as a covered attack on his son, and the final call of the PMK to the alliance of the PMK in 2026, the PMK’s final call, the PMK’s final call.
While high -level leadership waits for the problem to be solved, Dr. Dr. Ramadoss The weekly press conferences accusing Anbumani as a violent attack on his own mother and the presidency of the party, as each faction tried to unite the party under leadership, he tried to see Ram Aust’s decision more quickly as he tried to force the office carriers.
On May 16, more than 200 and PMK secretaries from 216 Regional Presidency did not come for a meeting called by Mr. Ramadoss at Thailapuram residence. After joining the Vanniyar Youth Conference, he attributed it to exhaustion.
While addressing a party meeting in Tirmaivallur on June 15, he reiterated that he would continue as the president of the party and sought a “forgive”: “AYYA [Mr. Ramadoss] I want me to be forgiven sincerely. There is nothing big in apologizing to the father. “The Founder of the PMK, who was reluctant to compromise, even kept his son from using his surname, and only allowed the latter to use it at the beginning.
Mr. Ramadoss, who made a serious claim, said on July 11 that a insect device was erected under his chair in Thailapuram residence. A police investigation continues.
Days later, Mr. Ramadoss filed a complaint to the Police General Manager who wanted to prevent 100 days of Mr. Anbumani Padayatra Tamil Nadu said that the campaign would cause the problems of law and order due to a possible conflict between the two groups in order to ilme reclaiming the rights of the people of Tamil ”. However, Mr. Anbumani had already begun a few minutes before the police permission was rejected. Padayatra He was in Thiruporur on July 25th.
PMK loses its brightness
Many political observers say the root of the issue has been in the last 15 years that the political capital of the PMK has stable erosion. At one point, the PMK was seen as a progressive force that hidden the secretary of the Secretary General for the planned caste, hundreds of Dr. He planted Ambedkar’s sculptures and gave plum ministries to the planned castes. Today, the PMK is largely seen in the first years of the last decade of Nada Kadhal’s’ Nada Kadhal ” problematic campaign against Dalit young people to reinforce non -branching communities.
The narrative of the PMK was attempted to address larger OBC communities beyond the traditional Vanniyar castles that were deeply conservative in rural Tamil Nadu and smaller towns.
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) helped the PMK, which was a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDMK), including Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) and others, to win the three -sleeved competition in Bay Anbumani’s 2014 Delik Sabha electrical competition. However, the PMK gradually began to lose its position to be an important part in the jigsaw of the alliance. In 2016, Mr. Anbumani launched a campaign called ‘Maatram Munnetram anbumani’, threw himself as a candidate for the prime minister, threw the party’s caste identity and attracted young, new voters. It didn’t work.
PMK’s relationship with AIADMK led by EPS
With the death of AIADMK leader Jayalithaa in December 2016, Mr. Ramadoss and Mr. Anbumani launched a fluffy attack against the new AIADMK leadership, then former Prime Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami and former Prime Minister Prime Minister O. Panneerselvam almost daily for the next two years. However, in an unexplained decision, the father and son established an alliance with AIADMK in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, losing their reliability and election. In 2019, Mr. Anbumani implies that there was no decision to establish an alliance with AIADMK.
After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, they launched a campaign to encourage the AIADMK government to provide 20% reservation to Vanniyars in the most back -class category in business and education. The PMK was able to convince a desperate AIADMK government to enact a law in the state council just before the declaration of the parliamentary elections with 10.5% internal reservations for Vanniyars. Despite the competition in 23 seats as part of the alliance, the PMK won only five -fifth.
PMK in Nda
Again, in 2024, Lok Sabha elections, Salem West Mla R. Arul, then left the alliance of the AIADMK Secretary General Edappi K. Palaniswami’nin visited the house, the PMK-AIADMK alliance was believed to be sealed. However, the PMK joined NDA in the early hours of the morning, and Mr. Ramadoss said that he had recently accepted because of the pressure imposed by his son Mr. Anbumani and his wife.
Contention bone
The key disagreement between the father and the son seems to be about the decision of the alliance during the elections, the election of candidates and elections. While Mr. Ramadoss always kept the last word when most decisions in the PMK, the dynamics began to change when Mr. Anbumani was appointed as the president of the party in 2022. Mr. Ramadoss reported that Mr. Anbumani was not comfortable with his hands to paste his old pie.
It is seen whether the Baba, Mr. Ramadoss and Son of Mr. Anbumani’s Pattali Makkal Katchi’s political capital can see if the elections of the State Assembly will see whether the political capital of Makkal Katchi will see more erosion in the upcoming surveys.
Published – 11 August 2025 06:00
