TN govt declines AIADMK plea to maintain Jayalalithaa statue

The Tamil Nadu government has declined a plea by the opposition AIADMK seeking permission to undertake the maintenance of the statue of late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. The government contended that handing over the maintenance of statues to private individuals or organisations was not in practice.

AIADMK coordinator and former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam had petitioned the Tamil Nadu higher education department to allow the party to maintain the statue of Jayalalithaa at the Tamil Nadu State Council of Higher Education campus.

However, the state Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudi in a statement on Thursday said the statue would be maintained by the government of Tamil Nadu.

The state Public works department (PWD) that is maintaining the statue said that handing over the maintenance of statues to private individuals and organisations was not in practice in Tamil Nadu.

The state higher education minister in the statement said that it has been the usual practice in the state of Tamil Nadu to maintain the statute by the Public Works Department. He also said that floral tributes would be paid to the statues of state and national leaders and freedom fighters on their birthdays and death anniversary and added that it would continue in the case of former Chief Minister, J. Jayalalithaa also.

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