DMK, AIADMK leaders pay tributes to Alagumuthu Kon

DMK ministers and AIADMK leaders paid homage to Veeran Alagumuthu Kon, a chieftain who fought against the British, on his 311th birth anniversary.
DMK functionaries led by rural development minister K R Periyakaruppan, information and publicity minister M P Saminathan, transport minister Rajakannappan and Hindu religious and charitable endowments department minister P K Sekar Babu paid floral tributes to a portrait of the chieftain at Egmore in Chennai.
AIADMK leaders including former minister Gokula Indira, K Pandiarajan and P Benjamin garlanded the portrait of Kon in Chennai. While his birth anniversary was celebrated as a government function in his memorial in Kattankulam in Tuticorin district, floral tributes were paid across the state. TNN