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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Tuesday inaugurated the AKG Memorial Museum astatine Peralassery here, emphasising that museums service arsenic centres of absorption against attempts to distort past and undermine antiauthoritarian values.
The depository has been established connected a 3.3-acre crippled acquired by the Revenue section adjacent the Anjarakandi stream astatine Paliyath. Land acquisition outgo ₹12.06 crore, portion ₹6.44 crorewas spent connected constructing the gathering and ₹4.82 crore connected accumulation arrangements.
The two-storey depository features six galleries showcasing AKG’s struggles, relation successful the state movement, parliamentary interventions, and wide agitations. Facilities see a mini-theatre equipped with modern technology, life-size statues and miniatures, ocular recreations of cardinal events, interviews with salient personalities, a documentation system, administrative offices, and indispensable amenities—including that ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities.
Addressing the gathering aft the museum’s inauguration, the Chief Minister noted that institutions preserving past basal arsenic bulwarks against efforts to suppress statement and steer the federation toward authoritarianism. In an epoch dominated by accusation technology, helium observed, cognition spreads rapidly—but falsehoods question adjacent faster. He expressed interest that adjacent individuals successful liable positions were starring campaigns of misinformation.
“In this context, museums summation greater value arsenic spaces that uphold information and antagonistic mendacious narratives,” helium said. He highlighted that the struggles led by leaders specified arsenic A.K. Gopalan shaped the country’s existent societal and governmental landscape, and cautioned against the ongoing attempts to undermine movements against feudal landlordism and imperialism. Pointing to the transition of Bills without discussion, suspension of dissenting members, and targeting of critics, helium warned that parliamentary ideology itself was astatine risk.
Describing AKG’s beingness arsenic emblematic of an era, the Chief Minister affirmed that the authorities continues to travel his imaginativeness of ensuring that the benefits of improvement scope each sections of society. Establishing a memorial successful his birthplace, helium added, is portion of the effort to sphere past for aboriginal generations.
He besides inaugurated the Keezhathur Bridge connected the day.
