Chennai: The Tamilnadu government today said the MGR centeneray celebrations in Kanyakumari and Chennai, earlier postponed due to ‘administrative reasons,’ will be held on 22 and 30 September, respectively.
The centenary celebrations of late Chief Minister MG Ramachandran, fondly addressed as MGR, was held last year in all districts of the State except these two, a Government Order said.
The Chennai event will be the valedictory function, it added. Earlier, a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister K Palaniswani in May 2017 had decided to celebrate the MGR centenary celebrations in all 32 districts of the State.
According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to participate
at the valedictory function in Chennai.