'Dravida Peravai' (Dravidian Front), is a political party in Pondicherry, India. The DP was formed in 1996 by a break-away faction of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. The Party claims to be a "green" party. The present Party General Secretary is N. Nandhivarman. The DP strives to unite Tamils and impart a scientific outlook for the enrichment of Tamil culture. The Party has fought for national projects like the Inter-linking of Indian Rivers, the Sedhusamudram Seaway and the Tenth Degree Canal, an Indo-Thailand joint venture. The DP is concerned about future continental and coastal changes affecting Tamil Nadu and Tamils. A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... Pondicherry (पà¥à¤à¤¡à¤¿à¤à¥à¤°à¥ in Hindi), currently undergoing a name change to Puduchery, is the name of a union territory and its capital in the south of India. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) is a regional political party in the Tamil Nadu state of India. ...
The Dravida Peravai supports what they refer to as the Tamil struggle in Sri Lanka. Tamil girls in Tiruvannamalai The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back almost two millennia. ...
The Party sees the former minister of defence George Fernandes as the "International Torch-bearer of Socialism"- George Fernandes (born 1930) is an Indian politician. ...
External links
Party website
Another DP website
Nurturing Tamil togetherness through the Internet, by N. Nandhivarman
DravidaPeravai sent a Memorandum to the Union Minister of External Affairs Mr.Jaswant Singh on 31.07.2000.
Dravida Kazhagam General Secretary Dr.K.Veeramani visited DravidaPeravai party office on 18.11.2000 in connection with a meeting of his party.
DravidaPeravai now reminds the Government headed by the same Atal Bihari Vajpayee to fulfill what he had once demanded while he was in opposition; namely retrieval of the Katcha Theevu islands from the Srilankan government.