Members and local leaders of the AIADMK celebrated the 98th birth anniversary of the party founder and the late Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran garlanding his statue, offering floral tributes and playing old cine music numbers at several street corners in the district on Saturday.
Party leaders garlanded the MGR statue near the Railady area here after taking out a procession from the Lawley Hall area on the Abraham Pandither Road. Thanjavur MP K. Parasuraman led the procession in which Thanjavur Mayor Savitri Gopal, District Panchayat Chairperson Amudha Ravichandran, District Central Cooperative Bank president Durai Tirugnanam and party town secretary Pandarinathan participated along with a large number of AIADMK cadres and MGR fans.
PUDUKOTTAI: Party workers offered their homage to the late M.G. Ramachandran in Pudukottai. Led by K. Baskar, town secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the workers offered floral tributes to the statue of their leader. Karthik R. Thondaiman, MLA, and V.C. Ramaiah, District Panchayat president, were part of a procession that went towards the statue.
Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam workers, led by K. Ramasamy, district secretary, too offered similar tributes.
