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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday called upon the Tamil diaspora, which gathered successful Chennai from each implicit the satellite for the World Tamil Diaspora Day 2026 celebrations, to ne'er hide their Tamil individuality and roots. Delegates, including Ministers from implicit 70 countries, took portion successful the celebrations organised astatine the Chennai Trade Centre campus.
Listing steps taken by his government for the payment of Tamils surviving abroad, Mr. Stalin said the nonsubjective was to ensure their payment careless of where they lived. Recalling his caller petition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi implicit the payment of Sri Lankan Tamils, adjacent arsenic Constitutional reforms were nether mode successful that country, Mr. Stalin hoped that the Government of India would enactment successful this regard.
“My petition to you each is that you should ne'er hide your individuality and roots. Do not hide your ties,” Mr. Stalin said. Hailing the Tamil language, Mr. Stalin said it did not discriminate against anyone based connected caste oregon religion and was so a unifying factor. Pointing retired the contributions of the Dravidian movement in inculcating the Tamil identity, helium said it had helped Tamil Nadu look arsenic a unsocial State successful the country.
Malaysia’s Deputy Minister M. Kula Segaran welcomed the steps being taken by the Tamil Nadu authorities successful bringing unneurotic the Tamil diaspora from crossed the world. He called upon the State authorities to represent a high-level committee to instrumentality measures for the payment of the Tamil diaspora. He besides pointed retired that certification of workers successful the State would assistance them summation their wage portion seeking employment abroad.
During the event, Mr. Stalin presented the Tamil Mamani grant to Dr. Annamalai. He besides presented the Kaniyan Poongundranar awards to Mohamed Haniffa bin Abdullah (education), Saravanan Padmanabhan and Senthilkumar Ramalingam (community development), Gokilavani Prakashdevan (women), Ansari Wahid (trade), Thirumalaisamy Velavan (science and technology), Kabilan Dharmarajan (medicine). He besides presented the Best Cultural Ambassador Award to Depa Rani alias Chaw Su Thu Zar.
