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Tamil Nadu cabinet moves resolution to recommend Bharat Ratna for Jayalalithaa

ByPTI, Chennai
Dec 10, 2016 09:57 PM IST

Tamil Nadu Cabinet decided on Saturday to recommend late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa for India’s highest civilian honour, the ‘Bharat Ratna’.

Tamil Nadu Cabinet decided on Saturday to recommend late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa for India’s highest civilian honour, the ‘Bharat Ratna’.

Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam and his cabinet colleagues pay homage at the late AIADMK supremo JJayalalithaa’s memorial in Chennai.(PTI Photo)
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam and his cabinet colleagues pay homage at the late AIADMK supremo JJayalalithaa’s memorial in Chennai.(PTI Photo)

In its first meeting chaired by chief minister O Panneerselvam after Jayalalithaa’s demise, the Cabinet also decided to recommend to the Centre installation of her life-size bronze statue in Parliament complex.

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“A resolution was adopted in the Cabinet to recommend to the Centre to award Bharat Ratna to honourable Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa,” an official statement detailing the decision taken in Saturday meeting said.

Further, the council of ministers resolved to urge the Centre to install her bronze statue in the Parliament complex, and proposed to raise a memorial building for the deceased leader at the MG Ramachandran (MGR) Memorial site, where she was laid to rest on Tuesday at an estimated cost of Rs 15 crore.

The Cabinet further resolved to rename the memorial as Dr Puratchi Thalaivar MGR and Puratchi Thalaivi Amma Selvi J Jayalalithaa Memorial, it added.

The Cabinet also proposed to unveil a portrait of the leader in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.

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