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Chief Minister M.K. Stalin unveiled the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and communist person and state combatant P. Jeevanandham, and inaugurated a memorial hallway built astatine a outgo of ₹3.27 crore astatine Siravayal present connected Saturday.
The memorial stands astatine the historical tract wherever Mahatma Gandhi met Jeevanandham.
Unveiling the bronze statue of Gandhi and Jeevanandham, Mr. Stalin, recounted a celebrated humanities speech betwixt the 2 leaders: “When Gandhi met Jeeva astatine his ashram, helium asked, ‘What assets bash you possess?’ Jeeva replied, ‘The motherland is my lone asset.’ To this, Gandhi remarked, ‘You are the plus of India.’”
Additionally, helium announced that pursuing a petition from CPI(M) State caput P. Shanmugam, a statue of Karl Marx would beryllium unveiled astatine the Connemara Public Library successful Chennai connected February 6.
Mr. Stalin further said that the memorial was designed to relation not lone arsenic a monument but besides arsenic a matrimony hall for the payment of the section community.
Following the inauguration, helium took portion successful the centenary celebrations of Kundrakudi Adigalar and paid floral tributes to his statue.
Ministers K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, Thangam Thennarasu, K.R. Periakaruppan, and M.P. Saminathan, MLA A. Tamilarasi, Mr. Shanmugam, CPI State caput M. Veerapandian, and Sivaganga Collector K. Porkodi were contiguous astatine the event.
