Tributes paid to freedom fighter

Monday, February 18, 2008, 15:37 [IST]

Puducherry, Feb 18: Floral tributes were paid to freedom fighter Sindanai Sirppi Singaravelar on his 148th birth anniversary here today.

Puducherry Speaker R Radhakrishnan garlanded the Singaravelar statue on behalf of the territorial administration.

PMK parliamentary party leader M Ramadass and party Legislators Anmantharaman, Arul Murugal and Pannerselvam and members of several fishermen organisations also garlanded the statue to mark the occasion.

The PMK also held a conference on Singaravelar here on the occasion.

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