Chennai, Aug 26: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin unveiled a statue of late DMK Patriarch and former 5-time chief minister M Karunanidhi at Kallipatti in Gobichettipalayam in Erode district final night.
Addressing after unveiling the statue, Stalin mentioned Erode was not solely the starting place of social reformer and rationalist chief EVR Periyar, but it surely was additionally a ‘gurukulam’ that molded Karunanidhi. Recollecting Karunanidhi’s hyperlinks with Erode, he mentioned ‘Kalaignar’ enacted a drama ‘Thooku Medai,’ throughout the Dravidar Kazhagam convention in 1948.“It was then, that Kalaignar made his entry in movies,” he added.
He mentioned that ‘Thanthai’ Periyar was instrumental in putting in a statue of Kalaignar on the arterial Anna Salai in Chennai metropolis in 1975. “But it surely was vandalized in 1987″, he mentioned, including, “I don’t need to go additional into it”. Stalin additionally inaugurated the distribution of 1 lakh saplings to high school college students and an outreach program of the celebration’s setting wing.
Within the outreach program, named ‘sutruchulal kakka palagu’ (be taught to guard the setting), the setting wing has roped in specialists to deal with college students in faculties and faculties to create consciousness on environmental points, local weather change, zoonotic ailments, afforestation, water conservation, and rising residence gardens.
