MGR 100th birth anniversary: Twitterati pay tribute to actor and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

MGR memorial at the Marina Beach in Chennai today witnessed huge crowd who came to pay respects to the former actor.

Updated: January 17, 2017 12:11 PM IST

By Nithya Nair

MGR 100th birth anniversary: Twitterati pay tribute to actor and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Tamil Nadu is celebrating the hundredth birth anniversary of Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran. MGR was the founder of All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu. MGR memorial at the Marina Beach in Chennai today witnessed huge crowd who came to pay respects to the former actor. Jayalalithaa’s niece Deepa Jayakumar was also present at the event.

Former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa was cremated next to the MGR memorial on Marina Beach, last month. Tamil Nadu assembly’s opposition party chief MK Stalin had extended greetings to MGR on his 100th birth anniversary. The Tamil Nadu government has declared January 17 as a public holiday for the entire state. AIADMK general secretary Sasikala Natrajan would garland MGR’s statue and will participate in the celebrations today. ALSO READ- MG Ramachandran 100th birth anniversary: Sasikala to unveil MGR’s statue, Deepa Jayakumar returns without paying tribute

Ramachandran was a popular star in Tamil cinema before joining Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). In 1972, he founded the AIADMK with DMK chief M Karunanidhi. He served as chief minister of Tamil Nadu between 1977 and 1987.  Twitter is pouring in with respects to the former leader. Twitterati has been lauding praises of the actor whose popularity knew no bounds.

Here are tweets where people are paying respects to the leader:

MGR’s death was the passing of an era that was loved by the people. His death had paralysed the southern state for two days. Madras succumbed to the death with essential supplies being cut off with looting and blazing of shops. Four million people had witnessed the last journey of chief minister. Tamil Nadu chief minister O Pannerselvam had asked the center to issue commemorative coin and special postal stamp for MGR on his birth centenary.(Image Credits- Indian Mirror)

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