All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (
AIADMK) (lit. All India Anna Dravidian Progress Federation) is a state political party in the states of
Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry, India. It is currently in power in Tamil Nadu and is the third largest party in the
Lok Sabha. It is a
Dravidian party and was founded by
M.G. Ramachandran (popularly known as
MGR) on 17 October 1972 as a breakaway faction of the
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). Since 1989, AIADMK has been led by
J. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.The party headquarters is located in Royapettah,
Chennai, and was donated to the party in 1986 by its former leader
Janaki Ramachandran, MGR's wife. Coalitions headed by the party have won the elections to the
Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly six times, making it the most successful political outfit in the state's history.