Chennai :

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday inaugurated a memorial of freedom fighter Veerapandiya Kattabomman in Kayathar in Tuticorin district.

The memorial that costs 1.2 crore was opened through video conferencing from Secretariat, an official release said. In 2013, Jayalalithaa announced that the state government would build a memorial for the patriot who was hanged by the British.

She also inaugurated a memorial of freedom fighter Sankaralingam in Virudhunagar district.

Sangaralingam died while staging a hunger strike to rename Madras Presidency into Tamil Nadu. The memorial cost 1.2 crore

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