Stalin's swearing-in: Low-key celebrations in Thirukkuvalai -- M Karunanidhi's birthplace

DMK functionaries, however, arrived an hour later and lifted the town’s spirits.

Published: 08th May 2021 05:01 AM  |   Last Updated: 08th May 2021 05:01 AM   |  A+A A-

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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin (File Photo | A Raja Chidambaram, EPS)

By Express News Service

NAGAPATTINAM/TIRUCHY: COVID-19 restrictions took away the spirit from celebrations held in connection with the swearing-in of Chief Minister MK Stalin at his ancestral village of Thirukkuvalai on Friday.Residents of Thirukkuvalai — where Stalin’s father and former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi was born in 1924 — confined themselves to their houses, glued to television screens that aired the swearing-in ceremony in the morning.

DMK functionaries, however, arrived an hour later and lifted the town’s spirits. They garlanded the busts and portraits of M Karunanidhi, his parents A Muthuvel and M Anjugam Ammal — in whose names the former CM’s ancestral house-turned-memorial was opened as ‘Muthuvelar Library’ and ‘Anjugam Study.’

“It was important to mark the occasion of our leader’s swearing-in at his ancestral village and house. We did it quietly. We didn’t stop with paying homage but also distributed buttermilk, kabasura kudineer and sweets to people,” said DMK’s union secretary A Thomas Alva Edison

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