Saturday, October 19, 2019

EPS to get doctorate tomorrow
Chennai:19.10.2019

The list of Tamil Nadu politicians who have been conferred honorary doctorates is set to get an addition on Sunday. Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami will receive honorary doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute, Deemed to be University.

Palaniswami is the third AIADMK chief minister to get the honour after party founder M G Ramachandran and J Jayalalithaa. While MGR received doctorate from University of Madras, Jayalalithaa got it from five varsities. Honorary doctorate was conferred on former chief minister M Karuananidhi in 1971, and thereafter by three varsities. Founder-chancellor of Dr MGR varsity and New Justice Party leader A C Shanmugam, is a key ally of the AIADMK. Shanmugam contested the recent Vellore LS bypoll on the AIADMK’s two leaves symbol and lost. His deemed university will also confer honorary doctorates on music director Harris Jayaraj and dancer and film actor Shobana Chandrakumar on the occasion. TNN

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