Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Wednesday paid floral tributes to the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran on his 101st birth anniversary.
Mr. Narayanasamy garlanded the statue of MGR. Welfare Minister M. Kandasamy and functionaries of different wings of the Congress were present.
Scores of volunteers and functionaries of different wings of the AIADMK, led by the legislature party leader A. Anbalagan, and MLAs A. Baskar and Vaiyapuri Manikandan paid floral tributes to the statue of MGR at the party office in Uppalam.
The AIADMK held special programmes to distribute saris and dhotis and food packets to the poor at different centres on the occasion.
The party activists participated in a procession taken out from the party office in Uppalam to the new bus stand. A decorated portrait of MGR was taken in the procession.
AIADMK State secretary P. Purushothaman, party’s presidium leader M. Pandurangam and a host of office-bearers of the party participated.
Meanwhile, another group of AIADMK cadre, led by former MLA Om Sakthi Sekar, participated in a procession taken out from Nellithope.
