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Bharat Mata statue uncovered in Kanyakumari, Tarun Vijay calls for renaming Puviyoor as Bharat Mata village

May 25, 2020
The Commune

Former MP Tarun Vijay who is also the President of Students and Youth for Thiruvalluvar sent a note of congratulations to the villagers of Puviyoor for their victory over restoring the Bharat Mata statue at a local temple.

The statue of Bharat Mata was installed by a daily wage earner named Muthu Kumar at his ancestral temple who was then subsequently asked by the local police to remove the statue citing complaints from local Christians.

BJP leaders Tarun Vijay and K.J Alphons had written to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami to take action regarding the same.

Supreme Court lawyer Rajesh Gogna had sent notice to CM and Director General of Police, Tamilnadu to probe the entire incident and take back the police notice. He also asked for punishing the guilty and providing security to Muthu Kumar.

Mr. Tarun Vijay in his press release condemned the actions of the local police for vitiating the communal atmosphere amid COVID 19. He asked “at whose behest and under which law the sub-inspector of police of South Thamaraikulam police station sent a written notice to Thiru. Muthu Kumar? Why did the collector give verbal orders to take out the cover from Bharat Mata statue and why the police order was not withdrawn?”

He called for the notice to be taken back and added that the police must apologize to Muthu Kumar.

Mr. Tarun Vijay said “it is shameful that in the land of great revolutionaries like Subramania Bharathi and sage philosopher Thiruvalluvar  we had to fight  for the honour of Bharat Mata.”

He thanked Rajya Sabha MP K.J. Alphons for his support and called for renaming Puviyoor village as Bharat Mata village. He said that Puviyoor has become a new Bharat Mata Teertha (pilgrim centre) for the patriotic people and added that he will ensure more and more people come to visit the temple from rest of country.