Freedom fighter and social reformer P. Jeevanandam was remembered on his 110th birth anniversary here on Sunday.
District Collector Sajjansingh R. Chavan offered floral tributes to his bronze bust at Manimandapam in Veppamudu junction in the presence of Rajya Sabha member A. Vijaykumar, Nagercoil RDO R. Rajkumar and local body leaders.
Jeevanandam had participated in the Independence movement under the leadership Mahatma Gandhi and also in the self-respect movement with Periyar E.V. Ramasamy. An ardent communist, he founded the Tamil Nadu Art and Literary Federation (Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumandram) in 1961.
He was born on August 21, 1907, at Boothapandi to Pattan Pillai and Umayammai. In 1936, he was elected as the general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Congress Socialist party and started a weekly ‘Jana Sakthi’ in 1937. He was elected as the vice-president of Vickramasingapuram spinning mill in 1946 and passed away on January 18, 1963.
Rajya Sabha MP A. Vijaykumar garlanded the statue of Jeevanantham in his native village Boothapandi and offered floral tributes to the portrait of the leader kept at the residence of his grandson Jeeva Ganesan in Boothapandi.
