YADAVA POLITICAL CONFERENCE MADURAI - 1971

In the year 1971 the DMK which was controlling the Tamilnadu politics with full strength neglected Yadavas by not giving proper representation to the participation of Yadavas in Assembly and Parliament.

Year	Total No.	Name	Legislative Assembly
1937	1	Shri L.S. Karayalar	Kovilpatty
1946	1	Shri L.S. Karayalar	Kovilpatty
1952	1	Shri K. Ramasamy Das	Kovilpatty
1957	1	Shri K.Sathanantha Karayalar	Tenkasi
1962	1 2	Shri Rama Arangannal Shri T. P. Alagamuthu	Mylapore Perambalur
1967	1 2 3 4 5	Shri Rama Arangannal Shri T. P. Alagamuthu Shri C. Govindarajan Shri M.R. Kannan Shri M. Bupathy	Mylapore Uppliapuram Madurai Central BasinBridge Coimbatore
1971	1 2 3 4 5 6	Shri Rama Arangannal Shri T. P. Alagamuthu Shri K. R. Krishnan Shri M.R. Kannan Shri N. Manickam Shri Padmanabhan	Egmore Uppliapuram Uthankaria Basin Bridge Pennagaram Tirunelvelli
1977	1 2 3	Shri S.Balakrishnan Shri N. Lakshminarayanan Shri S. Muthusamy Karayalar	Mudukulathur Madurai Central Tenkasi
1980	1 2	Shri K.Sathanantha Karayalar Shri S. Anguchamy	Tenkasi Thiruvadanour
1985	1 2 3 4 5	Shri A. Deivanayagam Shri T. Perumal Shri K. Solairaj Shri Ella Rajamanickam Shri Rajarathinam Mani	Madurai Central Kadayanallur Marungapuri Tambaram, Madras Villupuram
1989	1 2 3 4	Shri Dr. M. Tamilgudimagan Shri M. A. Vaithialingam Shri S. Paulraj Shri AChiyur Mani	Ilayangudi Tambaram, Madras Madurai,Central Nanguneri
1991	1 2 3 4 5 6	Shri S. Kannappan Smt. S. Mallika Shri A. Deivanayagam Shri S. Balakrishnan Shri S. Kannan Shri  S. Alagiri	Thirupathur Bhuvanagiri Madurai Central Mudukulathur Thiruvannamalai Chidambaram

Yadavas were to contest the elections. Without a short notice (5 days notice) the Yadava Political Conference was arranged on 31.01.1971 which was attended by least people. No pandal was erected. Only on the ground all sat and heard the deliberation. The conference was organized by Tamilnadu Yadava Association under the stewardship of Shri E.Rengasamy and Shri D. Nagendhiran. When the conference was in session the Hon. Chief Minister Dr. Kalianjar M. Karunanidhi who was at Madurai saw with his own eyes the enthusiasm of Yadava Youth and send word to the conference to send delegates to meet him and accordingly Shri K. Sreenivasan Karayalar, Shri E. Rengasamy met the Hon. Chief Minister at circuit house on the same day. This yielded good result of getting additional seats for Yadavas to contest in the General Election in 1971.

In the year 1989 the Tamilnadu Yadava Maha Saba took a decision to boycott the General Election because the government has not acceded to any of its demands and no party also fielded any Yadavas for the Lok sabha poll. Because of this agitation DMK nominated a Yadava to contest from Pudukottai parliamentary seat but he could not succeed. Shri S. Lakshmana Yadav, Shri G. Varadan, Shri D. Nagendhiran under the leadership of Shri Shyamlal Yadav of All India Yadava Maha Saba met Shri Rajiv Gandhi and represented for more seats from the congress party. This yielded good result. In the 1991 Assembly election 4 Yadavas were contested on congress ticket. Previously only 2 seats were given.

Year	Seats	Name	Assembly
1996	1 2 3 4 5 6	Shri Dr. M. Tamilkudimagan Shri S. Balakrishnan Shri M.A. Vaithialingam Shri A. Deivanayagam Shri S. Alagiri Shri Sethunathan	Ilayankudy Mudukalathur Tambaram – Madras Madurai – Central Chidambaram Tindivanam
2001	1 2 3	Shri S. Balakrishnan Shri M.A. Vaithialingam Shri Rubin alias Krishnakumar	Kadalady Tambaram – Madras Coimbtore
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
1954		Shri M.S. Karayalar
1969 - 71		Shri S. Raghavanandam
1977-85		Shri S. Raghavanandam
LOK SABHA
1971		Shri K. Veeraiah	Pudukottai