Moopanar ashes immersed in sea

By Our Tamil Nadu Bureau

CHENNAI, SEPT. 9. The ashes of the TMC leader, G.K. Moopanar, were immersed in the sea and rivers at various places - from Thiruvaiyaru to Kanyakumari - today.

Urns containing the ashes were let into the Cauvery at Thiruvaiyaru near Moopanar's home village and Srirangam, the Bhavani near Erode, and in the sea at Rameswaram and Kanyakumari besides Pondicherry. In Pondicherry, the Chief Minister, Mr. P. Shanmugham, received the urn from the senior TMC leaders, Mr. Tamizharuvimanian, and Mr. Muktha Srinivasan, and immersed it into the sea.

The former State Congress women's wing president and senior TMC leader, Ms. Lakshmi Albert, set the urn afloat in the Cauvery waters even as scores of party cadres raised slogans hailing Moopanar. While the senior TMC leader, Mrs. Jayanthi Natarajan, and Mr. K.S. Alagiri, performed the immersion ceremony at Srirangam, the TNCC president, Mr. E.V.K.S. Elangovan, joined the TMC MLAs, Mr. S.R. Balasubramaniam and Mr. V.K. Lakshmanan, in immersing the urn in the Bhavani.

At Rameswaram, Mr. S. Balakrishnan and K.Paramalai, MLAs were among the TMC seniors who attended the ceremony, and in Kanyakumari, former Union Minister, Mr. Danushkodi Adityan, former MP, Mr. N.S.V. Chithan, and the former youth wing president, Dr. A. Chellakumar, participated.

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