Tamil Nadu Forward Bloc

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Tamil Nadu Forward Bloc was a political party in Tamil Nadu, India. The party was founded in 1981 through the merger of National Forward Bloc (NFB) and Pasumpon Forward Bloc of Ayyanan Ambalam, following a split from the NFB.

In 1983, the party suffered a severe split. One section of the party rallied around P.K. Muthuramalinga Thevar and formed the

All India Forward Bloc (Kandasamy)
. The rump TNFB was led by Ayyanan Ambalam.

Sources

  1. Bose, K., Forward Bloc, Madras: Tamil Nadu Academy of Political Science, 1988.