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“The request for Bharat Ratna for Muthuramalinga Thevar is conscionable an summation to the respective appreciations and accolades the people’s person holds,” said erstwhile former Chief Minister and AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
He paid floral tributes to the statue of Muthuramalinga Thevar astatine his memorial astatine Pasumpon successful Ramanathapuram territory connected the 118th Thevar Jayanthi and 63rd Guru Puja connected Thursday.
Speaking to journalists here, helium said it was erstwhile Chief Minister and AIADMK laminitis M.G. Ramachandran who declared Thevar Jayanthi a authorities event. “A life-size representation of Thevar was unveiled connected Tamil Nadu secretariat premises during the AIADMK government,” helium added.
Former Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha erected a statue of Muthuramalinga Thevar astatine Nandanam successful Chennai and donated a 13.5-kg aureate armour to the Thevar statue astatine Pasumpon, Mr. Palaniswami recalled.
“Thevar, who spent astir 4,000 days successful prisons for assorted protests, was elected from Aruppukkotai Lok Sabha constituency and Mudukulathur Assembly constituency. This displayed however helium was revered and supported by the people,” helium said, adding helium gave respective acres of onshore to mediocre radical of assorted communities.
AIADMK leaders R.B. Udayakumar, Sellur K. Raju, Dindigul C. Srinivasan, and others were present.
Vaiko, Seeman code press
MDMK laminitis and person Vaiko and NTK main coordinator Seeman paid their respects astatine Muthuramalinga Thevar memorial.
Addressing the property on with Mr. Seeman, Mr. Vaiko, said, “On the juncture of Thevar Jayanthi, I telephone upon the radical of each communities to travel unneurotic forgetting each differences.”
As followers of Thevar, everyone should instrumentality a vow to beforehand bid and uphold the principles of brotherhood and equality to bring astir a alteration successful society, helium added.
Recalling past events, Mr. Vaiko, said, “Thevar, on with Vaidhyanatha Iyer, took efforts to instrumentality Scheduled Caste radical wrong Madurai Meenakshi temple. After his warning, nary 1 dared to halt them.”
Mr. Seeman, speaking to journalists, said, “Muthuramalinga Thevar who lived a principled beingness by denouncing each the luxuries is being covered with golden ornaments for ballot politics.”
Charging astatine the governmental parties for displaying Thevar successful a antithetic way, helium said, “By portraying him arsenic a idiosyncratic with each the luxuries, by gifting him golden and metallic ornaments, governmental parties are misleading the cognition of younger generation.” Instead of getting into specified things, governmental parties could commencement a spot successful the sanction of Thevar to enactment the section radical successful their acquisition and marriages, helium added.
TNCC president K. Selvaperunthagai, PMK person G.K. Mani, V.K. Sasikala, DMDK’s V. Vijaya Prabhakaran, and TVK wide secretary N. Anand and others besides paid their respect astatine the memorial.
After Moovendar Munnetra Kazhagam person Sridhar Vandayar slapped a memorial administrator, a little commotion ensued. As helium sat successful protest, constabulary intervened to region him from the hall.
Barring scattered incidents of commotion and insignificant accidents, the lawsuit ended peacefully. Senior officials attributed this to anterior readying and due deployment of constabulary unit astatine a cardinal junctions and areas.
More than 8,000 constabulary personnel, drawn from assorted parts of the State, were deployed for information crossed the territory and anterior instructions were issued to the nationalist regarding usage of vehicles.
