The Indian Christian Front (ICF) is a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 political party

Political party

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 in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

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. The president of the party is M.L. Sundaram. ICF, together with the Christian Democratic Front

Christian Democratic Front

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, contested the local elections in 2001. The party supported the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, India. The party was founded by M. G. Ramachandran and is now headed by J. Jayalalithaa. The party headquarters is in Royapettah, Chennai, and was gifted to the party in 1986 by its...

 (AIADMK), forming an alliance in the 2001 Tamil Nadu state assembly election.

In 2004 & 2009, the party extended its support to the United Progressive Alliance

United Progressive Alliance

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 (UPA), which strengthened the hand of the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Manmohan Singh

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In 2011, Tamil Nadu State Assembly Election, the party extended its support to All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is a state political party in the states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, India. The party was founded by M. G. Ramachandran and is now headed by J. Jayalalithaa. The party headquarters is in Royapettah, Chennai, and was gifted to the party in 1986 by its...

 (AIADMK), which has recently gained power in Tamil Nadu.

The Front has 11 lakh

Lakh

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 members in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, and the Christian population was around 11 per cent at the time in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Objectives

1. To ensure that the Dalit Christians gets included in the SC list and given all the rights on a par with other Dalits
2. To demand government jobs for one member in each family, according to eligibility norms
3. To remove what the party believes to be hurdles prevailing in the Christian minority educational institutions

Recent programs of the party include agitation against the Sri Lankan Navy

Sri Lankan Navy

-The Beginning and World War II:In January 1938 the Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force was created with Commander W.G. Beauchamp as Commanding Officer under ordinance No I of 1937. On 31 August 1939 at the out set of World War II, the CNVF was mobilized for war duties...

to stop what the party alleges are atrocities against Tamil Nadu fishermen.