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Tamil Nadu
“Restore school name”
K. Subramanian
KARAIKAL: Karaikal Struggle Group (KSG) that is fighting for separate union territory status for Karaikal region in the Union Territory of Puducherry on Tuesday submitted a petition to the Lt.Governor of Puducherry with a copy to Prime Minister and Union Home Minister to take immediate steps to restore the name of a school in Karaikal district.
S. P. Selvashanmugam, lawyer and convener of KSG, in the petition had stated that the sons of the late Ramasamy Iyer alias Raja Iyer, a veteran freedom fighter of Kurumbaram in Nedungadu Commune in Karaikal district, had donated their ancestral house to the Puducherry Government for an elementary school in the memory of their father.
The Puducherry Government established the school and named it as Ramasamy Iyer Government Primary School. Now, after the construction of new buildings, its name has been changed as Government Primary School.
Mr Selvashanmugam said that it was insult of and injustice to the patriots and freedom fighters.
He pointed out that Raja Iyer was a Member of the Pondicherry Legislative Assembly from the year 1947 during the French regime along with the late freedom fighters Leon Saint Jean and T.Madhavan who formed a Congress group in the Assembly and were working for the cause of liberation.
He said that Raja Iyer rendered yeoman service in the freedom struggle in the year 1954 and his name figured in the “Who’s who’ list of freedom fighters compiled by the Puducherry Government in 1966.
The KSG will be forced to launch peaceful agitations on Independence Day in front of Karaikal District Collectorate if the Puducherry Government did not immediately restore the name of the school.
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