Plan to name flyover, road after VOC: Min

Coimbatore: Chief minister M K Stalin will take a call on naming a flyover or a road in Coimbatore after freedom fighter V O Chidambaram Pillai, minister for food and civil supplies R Sakkarapani said here on Sunday.

The minister visited the Coimbatore Central Prison to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Pillai and paid floral tributes in front of his portrait and to the oil press he was tethered to. “Pillai’s birth anniversary is celebrated as a government function across the state to educate the young generation about him. The state government will install a life-size statue of Pillai at VOC Park here,” Sakkarapani said.

The minister also flagged off a TNSTC bus that displays photographs of Pillai. The vehicle will be taken to schools and colleges to educate the young generation.

Coimbatore south MLA Vanathi Srinivasan, collector G S Sameeran, corporation commissioner Raja Gopal Sunkara, prison DIG G Shanmuga Sundaram and prison superintendent G B Senthamaraikannan also paid floral tributes to the freedom fighter. Former DMK minister Pongalur N Palanisamy, former DMK MLA N Karthik, TNSTC managing director A Arumugam and senior officials were present.


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