Makkal Nalla Kottani

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Template:Infobox Indian Political Party Makkal Nalla Kootani (MNK), formerly People's Welfare Front (PWF) was a Tamil-Nadu political alliance formed in October 2015. It consisted of six political parties: Leading the alliance, the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC-(M))Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-(M)). The alliance contested the 2016 Tamil Nadu and Puducherry legislative assembly elections as one unit.[1] The alliance rejected potential alliance with Indian National Congress, BJP, DMK or ADMK, while was hopeful of enlisting Tamil Maanila Congress and Puthiya Tamilagam.[1]

In early November 2015, the alliance led movements against price rise, atrocities against minorities and Dalits and efforts to curtail freedom of speech.[2] It has taken a strong position in favour of liquor prohibition in Tamil Nadu. Later it made an electoral alliance with DMDK[3] and Tamil Maanila Congress.[4]

Policies

The alliance consists of two Dravidian parties (DMDK and MDMK), Two Tamil Parties (TMC(M) and VCK) and two leftist parties (CPI and CPI(M)). People's Welfare Front released a Common Minimum Program which all parties agreed to.[5] The major features of the program are as below.

  • Oppose globalisation, liberalisation economic policies and stop the privatisation of state programmes and industries
  • Oppose Hindutva, religious extremism and religious prosecution
  • Oppose powers exploiting caste – work to pass stricter laws preventing violence and discrimination against Dalits
  • Oppose corruption – implement Lokayukta
  • Implement transparent government – information about laws and programs will be released online
  • Increase funding and support for local governance units – implement Right to Public Services legislation in Tamil Nadu
  • Stop the stealing of minerals
  • Promote social justice – preserve 69% reservation, expand reservation in the private sector
  • Mother tongue development – make multilingual education ("first-language-first") mandatory
  • Promote folk arts – establish a university to develop folk arts
  • Work for increase powers and funding for states
  • Work to resolve river water issues
  • Support Sri Lankan Tamils in pursuit of justice and rights
  • Law and order – prevent police brutality
  • Protect democratic rights – fully protect freedom of expression
  • Prohibition – fully implement liquor prohibition in Tamil Nadu
  • Development of agriculture and villages – provide funding and infrastructure services for farmers
  • Land – protect arable land
  • Irrigation – maintain and modernise major irrigation systems
  • Homes and homelessness – provide homes for all without homes
  • Promote crafts and small businesses
  • Electricity – make Tamil Nadu self-sufficient in producing electricity
  • Labour rights – introduce minimum wage of Template:Indian Rupee 15,000 per month
  • Education – prevent privatisation of education and develop competitive public educational systems
  • Health – allocate 6% to health; create a multi-purpose public medical training facility in each district
  • Environment – implement stricter environmental standards
  • Employment – fill the two lakhs vacancies without corruption
  • Elimination of poverty – correctly identify people below poverty line (BPL) and deliver welfare services to them
  • Rural employment scheme – increase wages given under rural employment guarantee
  • City people – provide safe drinking water, develop underground sewage system
  • Women welfare – ensure that the state women commission works effectively and reports the results in the state assembly
  • Fishing communities welfare – stop multi-national companies (MNCs) from using sea resources; provide pensions to fishers
  • Minority rights – take strong actions against Hindutva religious violence and hate speech
  • Civil service and teachers – make part-time and shift workers permanent
  • Democratic reform – recommend proportional representation; work for 50% reservation for women in elected offices
  • Inflation – stop online and future trading activities
  • Public distribution – provide basic necessities including fruits and vegetables at subsidised prices
  • Science and Technology – build a central science and technology advanced research centre in southern Tamil Nadu
  • Sports – Make exercise mandatory for all levels until class 12
  • Transportation – Increase number of buses to reduce congestion
  • Road accidents – Separate traffic by building dividers

Electoral Performance

<section begin=Results />Template:Election table |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align: center;" rowspan=2 colspan=4|Party/Alliance !! style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;" width="60" rowspan=2|Votes !! style="vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;" rowspan=2|% !! style="text-align:center;" colspan=3|Seats |-style="background-color:#E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:center;"|Contested !! style="text-align:left;"|Won !! style="text-align:center;"|+/- |- | rowspan="7" bgcolor="#CAE00D" | | rowspan="7" |People's Welfare Front
(PWF) | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam || 1,037,431 || 2.41% || 105 || 0 || Template:Decrease29 |- | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam || 373,713 || 0.87% || 28 || 0 || Template:Steady |- | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Communist Party of India || 340,290 || 0.79% || 25 || 0 || Template:Decrease9 |- | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi ||331,849 || 0.77% || 25 || 0 || Template:Steady |- | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Communist Party of India (Marxist) || 307,303 || 0.72% || 25 || 0 || Template:Decrease10 |- | style="background-color:Template:Party color"|  || style="text-align:left;"|Tamil Maanila Congress || 230,711 || 0.54% || 26 || 0 || Template:Steady |- |colspan="2" style="background: #FFFF99;text-align:left"|Total |style="background: #FFFF99"|2,621,297 |style="background: #FFFF99"|6.1 |style="background: #FFFF99"|234 |style="background: #FFFF99"|0 |style="background: #FFFF99"|Template:Decrease48 |- |}

Withdrawals

Political Party ECI Status Date Reason for Withdrawal
Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) Template:Party color cell Unrecognised Party 20 June 2016 Quit and later Aligned with the AIADMK-led Alliance
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam Template:Party color cell State Party 22 June 2016
Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam Template:Party color cell Unrecognised Party 27 December 2016 Quit the front over the differences and later Aligned with the DMK Alliance
Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi Template:Party color cell State Party 25 November 2017 Aligned with the DMK Alliance ahead of R.K. Nagar Byelection
Communist Party of India Template:Party color cell State Party 27 November 2017
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Template:Party color cell National Party 30 November 2017

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pwf_formation
  2. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pwf_protest_nov_4
  3. ↑ TN polls: Joining the Third Front. The Indian Express.
  4. ↑ Tamil Nadu polls 2016: Vasan-led TMC joins DMDK-PWF combine. dna.
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named pwf_common_minimum
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