Policies
The ADMK moved from the anti-Hindi and anti-Brahman stand of the DMK party ideologies formulated by Annadurai. MGR indicated he never "favored anti-Brahminism and ADMK would oppose ethnic exclusion". Two Brahmin ladies Janaki and Jayalalitha were later fighting for the lead position. The ADMK sought to depoliticize the education policy of the government by not insisting on the medium of education to be Tamil language. Policies of ADMK were targeted to the poorer segments of Tamil society - poor, rickshaw pullers, and destitute women and centralizing the massive noon meal scheme for children. There was ambivalent approach towards the reservation policy and interest of farmers.
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