Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Sunday asked young Tamil men and women to name their children by choosing names from the Tamil language when he presided over the marriage of the daughter of a party headquarters secretary, Poochi S Murugan.
The leader of the DMK said it was his wish couples in Tamil Nadu pick Tamil names for their children.
He shared his wishes to the couple and in a tweet sent out from his handle where he urged others the young population to choose names for their babies from the Tamil language.
கழகத் தலைமை நிலையச் செயலாளர் திரு. பூச்சி முருகன் அவர்களது இல்ல சுயமரியாதைத் திருமண விழாவை தலைமையேற்று நடத்தி, மணமக்களை வாழ்த்தினேன்.
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) January 23, 2022
பிறக்கின்ற குழந்தைகளுக்குத் தமிழில் பெயர் சூட்டுவோம் என மணவாழ்த்தில் சொல்லியதை, உங்களிடமும் பகிர்ந்து வலியுறுத்துகிறேன். pic.twitter.com/0284sFaRzT
However, it is ironic that he himself is named after a Communist leader who is responsible for the death of 30 million people in the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s.
CM Stalin has himself said that his father was supposed to name him ‘Ayyadurai’, a combination of ‘Ayya’ referring to EV Ramasamy Naicker known as Periyar and ‘Durai’ after DMK founder Annadurai, but was named ‘Stalin’ after his father received the news of Russian Communist leader Joseph Stalin’s death. Karunanadhi who he says was addressing a public meeting at that time had apparently annoucned that he would be naming his son as ‘Stalin’.
However it must be noted that Joseph Stalin died on 5 March 1953 while MK Stalin was born on 1 March 1953.
Says that he was named after his dad received the news of his birth when he was speaking in a condolence meeting for Joseph Stalin
— Vishwatma 🇮🇳 (@HLKodo) January 23, 2022
but
Joseph Stalin Died on 5March 1953
M.K.S was born on
1 March 1953
Inference karunanidhi was working so hard that he got news only after a week pic.twitter.com/5fAy8IIyaU
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