DMK demands Bharat Ratna for Karunanidhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
11.08.2018
The DMK on Friday demanded in Parliament that the government posthumously confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, on party patriarch M Karunanidhi. Several members from the opposition bench supported this.
Raising the demand in the Rajya Sabha, Tiruchi Siva said the award would be a real tribute to the late Tamil Nadu leader’s exemplary work.
Karunanidhi was the “tallest leader of the country and a Dravidian stalwart,” said the Rajya Sabha member.
“He lived five years short of a century, of which he contributed 80 years to public life, fighting for the cause of the downtrodden, backward and the suppressed people...He was an outstanding orator, a prolific writer, a novelist, a short-story writer, a philosopher, a philanthropist and also a dramatist. He was an actor and also wrote scripts for 80 movies,” Siva said The lawmaker said Karunanidhi’s life could not be described in words. A staunch and untiring soldier, he was fighting till his last breath, for social justice, secularism, state autonomy and self respect, Siva said.
The MP highlighted some of the laws enacted during the DMK leader’s tenure including equal rights for women in ancestral property, widows’ rehabilitation, slum clearance board and many other boards for unorganised sector and even transsexuals.
“He was the first one to abolish the hand-pulled rickshaw. That was a very radical and progressive achievement. He said that no person should live in slums; slums should be removed; and in their place multi-storey buildings must come. The term ‘differently abled’ was coined by him... He shook hands for relationship and at the same time never compromised in policies and never hesitated to raise voice for the rights,” the MP said.
DRAVIDIAN ICON
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
11.08.2018
The DMK on Friday demanded in Parliament that the government posthumously confer Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, on party patriarch M Karunanidhi. Several members from the opposition bench supported this.
Raising the demand in the Rajya Sabha, Tiruchi Siva said the award would be a real tribute to the late Tamil Nadu leader’s exemplary work.
Karunanidhi was the “tallest leader of the country and a Dravidian stalwart,” said the Rajya Sabha member.
“He lived five years short of a century, of which he contributed 80 years to public life, fighting for the cause of the downtrodden, backward and the suppressed people...He was an outstanding orator, a prolific writer, a novelist, a short-story writer, a philosopher, a philanthropist and also a dramatist. He was an actor and also wrote scripts for 80 movies,” Siva said The lawmaker said Karunanidhi’s life could not be described in words. A staunch and untiring soldier, he was fighting till his last breath, for social justice, secularism, state autonomy and self respect, Siva said.
The MP highlighted some of the laws enacted during the DMK leader’s tenure including equal rights for women in ancestral property, widows’ rehabilitation, slum clearance board and many other boards for unorganised sector and even transsexuals.
“He was the first one to abolish the hand-pulled rickshaw. That was a very radical and progressive achievement. He said that no person should live in slums; slums should be removed; and in their place multi-storey buildings must come. The term ‘differently abled’ was coined by him... He shook hands for relationship and at the same time never compromised in policies and never hesitated to raise voice for the rights,” the MP said.
DRAVIDIAN ICON
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