Agitation to bring many SC sects under one common name

Seeking to bring six sub-sects in Scheduled Caste under common name of Devendra Kula Velalar, Puthiya Tamizhakam (PT) has decided to organise a six phased agitation across Tamil Nadu, beginning from August five.
The decision was taken in party's political high level committee meeting held here, PT founder president and MLA, Dr K Krishnasamy told reporters here today,
Stating that the party was fighting for this demand for the last two decades, when both the Dravidian parties inpower, Krishnasamy claimed that this was one of the major demands, when his party entered into alliance with AIADMK in 2011 assemblys polls.

Though DMK government has constituted a committee under Justice Janardhanan to look into this matter during 2006-2011, it lost power in the following elections and the report did not see the light of the day, which could have solved the problem, he said.
The party waited for the last four years in the hope of the Government would come out with a gazettte notice, to bring Pallar, Kurumbar, Kaladi, Mooppan, Devendra Kulathan and Pannadi, which have a six to eight per cent population in Tamil Nadu, under the common name Devendra Kula Velalar, Krishnasamy said.
This will have no no additional benefits to the castes or loss to the Government, since there were precedents since the period of late chief minister, M G Ramachandran, who named many castes under common names of Vanniyar and Nadar and many castes coming under one name of Thevar, Krishnasamy said.

As part of the agitation, the party will organize a massive demonstration in Madurai on August five and the future course of agitations will be decided in due course, he said.