Chennai sources have stated that the statue of Saint Thiruvalluvar lying in an abandoned state at a guest house in Haridwar, Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha on Wednesday has dashed off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention in the installation of the bust at an appropriate place in the holy town in Uttarakhand.
She has written a letter stating this matter with the Government of Uttarakhand urgently and to ensure that the statue of Thiruvalluvar is treated with due respect and is installed at an appropriate location at the earliest.
It is stated that Ms Jayalalitha's letter has come days after a massive outrage in Tamil Nadu over the state of the statue of Thiruvalluvar, which was unveiled at a makeshift camp at the Dam Kothi guest house in Haridwar after sadhus have protested against its installation at the Sankaracharya Chowk.
Meanwhile the writers, Tamil lovers and politicians had demanded that the Union and Uttarakhand Governments take steps to install the statue at an appropriate place and the object of the Thiruvalluvar Ganga Payanam is to show solidarity of the North with the Tamil saint poet Thiruvalluvar's message of equality and ending social discrimination in society.
