The AIADMK on Sunday celebrated its founder M.G. Ramachandran’s 99th birth anniversary with cadre pledging to work towards obtaining a landslide victory for the party in the Assembly elections.
Party general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who led the celebrations, garlanded MGR’s statue at the party headquarters in Royapettah. She distributed sweets to presspersons and released a souvenir .
Secretary of the party’s cultural wing and Social Welfare Minister P. Valarmathi received the first copy of the souvenir and secretary of the party’s petitions committee and Handlooms Minister S. Gokula Indira received the second copy from Ms. Jayalalithaa.
In a communication on Saturday, Ms. Jayalalithaa urged the cadres to work for a victory of the like that the country has never witnessed.
The victory will be yet another crown to MGR’s fame, she had said. In another letter, she had asked cadres and all the 14 wings of the party to organise public meetings and cultural programmes to mark birth anniversary celebrations till Tuesday.
Ministers paid floral tributes to the statue of MGR on Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University campus.
Parliament House
In Delhi, AIADMK MPs A. W. Rabi Bernard and V. Maithreyan garlanded the MGR statue inside Parliament House. Rallies, garlanding of MGR statues, distribution of sweets, annadhanam and milk abhishekam to his statue marked the day. Cadres and MGR lovers paid tributes to his photographs at several places.
