G.K. Moopanar.

G.K. Moopanar (Tamil: முப்பனார்) (1931-2001) was a senior Indian National Congress leader and a veteran Parliamentarian. He was a powerful All India Congress Committee general secretary from 1980 to 1988. Thiru.G.K. Moopanar was a close associate of Kingmaker,Bhartaratna and Veteran Congress Leader Late Thiru.K Kamaraj Nadar who was a guiding force in his life.

Thiru.Moopanar did not get along well with late Shri.Narasimha Rao, who was then the Prime Minister of India from 1991-96. So he parted ways with Rao on the issue on his joining hands with the AIADMK and founded his own party, the Tamil Maanila Congress(TMC). Despite this Thiru.Moopanar remained loyal to the Congress ideology.

Thiru.Moopanar came very close to becoming the Prime Minister of India in 1997 when Harkishan Singh Surjeet and Jyoti Basu asked him to lead a Congress supported government. He however declined the offer.[1]

Thiru.G.K. Moopanar had friends and associates cutting across party lines,and was also an close confidant of Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.He was a patron of Arts and Music especially Carnatic music.

After the demise of Thiru.Moopanar,under the new leadership of Thiru. G K Vasan, TMC merged back with the Congress in the presence of Shrimati.Sonia Gandhi, who appointed Thiru.G K Vasan as a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress.