10/10/2018 TN CM meets PM Modi; seeks Bharat Ratna to Annadurai, Jayalalithaa - The Hindu

TAMIL NADU

TN CM meets PM Modi; seeks Bharat Ratna to Annadurai,

Jayalalithaa

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Sobhana K. Nair
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 08, 2018 13:06 IST
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami met Prime Minister Narendra Modi with
a set of 20 demands, including asking the union government to confer Bharat Ratna to former
chief ministers C.N. Annadurai and Jayalalithaa.

With power struggle between Mr. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Paneerselvam intensifying,
the Chief Minister will also be meeting all AIADMK MPs here later in the day.

The Chief Minister's meeting with Mr. Modi comes ahead of winter session of Parliament
where the government is likely to face opposition heat on Rafale deal. Support of AIADMK
who have 37 MPs in Lok Sabha and 13 in Rajya Sabha will be critical for the BJP government.

Mr. Palaniswami, in the 37-page memorandum has called Annadurai the “ideological
fountainhead of major Dravidian parties” and claimed the State's economic and social
performance under Jayalalithas was the best. The Tamil Nadu cabinet had resolved on
September 9 to recommend Bharat Ratna for the two.
Among other things, he has also demanded that Chennai Central Station should be renamed
after “Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran” in commemoration of his birth centenary.
The memorandum also pleads for early completion of All India Institute for Medical Sciences
at Thoppur in Madurai district.

An earlier version of the article mistakenly said the institute to be completed in

Madurai was the Indian Institute of Management. The institute in question is All
India Institute for Medical Sciences, not IIM. The error has been corrected.

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