Thiruvalluvar Day' celebrated in Puducherry

Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today paid floral tributes at the statue of saint Thiruvalluvar on the Tamil poet's birth anniversary.
Ministers, legislators and delegates of various outfits also garlanded the statue and recalled the immortal contributions of the poet.
The day was celebrated as Tiruvalluvar day here as part of the celebrations of the Pongal harvest festival.
Speaking on the occassion, Narayanasamy said that Tirukural, the magnum opus of Thiruvalluvar, is an eternally relevant literary creation of the saint
A team of volunteers of the Puducherry State unit of Bharatiya Janata party led by its president V Saminathan garlanded the statue here.