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Singh released the coin in the presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin, son of Karunanidhi, who received it.
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Tamil Nadu Election Result 2021 | MK Stalin is the son of former chief minister late M Karunanidhi. This is the first time both DMK and AIADMK went to the polls without the backing of their stalwarts K Karunanidhi and J Jayalalitha.
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Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021: Multiple generations of voters in the state have never seen an assembly poll without either J Jayalalithaa or M Karunanidhi’s presence.
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The sudden admiration Right-wing groups are expressing for Thiruvalluvar, whose statue was deemed not fit to be placed near the statue of Adi Sankara at Haridwar in 2016, appears to be an attempt by the BJP to enter Tamil Nadu’s political discourse.
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While there was chaos in the AIADMK after Jayalalithaa’s demise, the transition in the DMK happened with relative ease
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National level leaders of various political parties are expected to attend the function to unveil the life-size statue on December 16.
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After knowing about the hospitalisation and failing health of Karunanidhi and later his death, 248 party workers died, a resolution adopted at the party general council meeting said.
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Stalin first campaigned for the DMK at the age of 14 years during the 1967 elections.
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Alagiri, the elder son of Karunanidhi, was once considered a party strongman and Madurai is his fiefdom.
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M K Alagiri and M K Stalin, the two sons of the DMK doyen, have been at loggerheads for years now before the former was expelled from the party in 2014
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The Madras High Court earlier in the day, dismissed all pending petitions challenging burials on the Marina.
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Modi, who arrived here from New Delhi by a special flight earlier in the morning, was accompanied by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and state unit leaders of the BJP, besides those of the DMK and the AIADMK.
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After observing a moment of silence in his memory, Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day.
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The 94-year-old leader breathed his last at the Kauvery Hospital in downtown Chennai at 6.10 p.m after waging a grim battle for life for 11 days, the hospital said.
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Karunanidhi, who was being treated for fever due to urinary tract infection, was admitted to the hospital in Chennai early on July 28
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Naidu, the TDP supremo, visited the Kauvery Hospital and enquired about Karunanidhi's health from his son and DMK working president M K Stalin.
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The 94-year-old leader was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Kauvery Hospital around 1:30 am. The hospital, in a statement, said he was brought there after his blood pressure had dropped.
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The veteran politician's Gopalapuram residence was decked with flowers as scores of party cadres began to converge since last night and cut a cake to mark the occasion.
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This was the first meeting between the two leaders after Modi became the prime minister in May 2014. The meeting lasted about 20 minutes. Modi sat next to wheelchair-bound Karunanidhi, 93, and held his hands.
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The meeting between the two leaders lasted about 20 minutes. Modi sat next to Karunanidhi and held his hands.
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"During his visit to Tamil Nadu today, PM Sh Narendra Modiji will visit senior-most leader from the state and former CM M Karunanidhi," BJP national general secretary P Mualidhar Rao said in a tweet.
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The former chief minister was admitted for a "minor procedure - change of (Percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy) PEG tube," Kauvery Hospital Executive Director S Aravindan said in a statement. After the completion of the procedure which took about 40 minutes, Karunanidhi was discharged, hospital sources said.
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The nonagenarian leader "has been admitted for a minor procedure - change of (Percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy) PEG tube. He will be discharged from the hospital later today," Kauvery Hospital Executive Director S Aravindan said in a statement.
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DMK President M Karunanidhi was today hospitalised here for further treatment of a drug-induced allergy that has virtually kept him out of public activities for the past one month.
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The hospital authorities said that Karunanidhi was "admitted for optimisation of nutrition and hydration." "He is stable and being treated by a team of doctors. He will be in the hospital for few days," Aravindan Selvaraj, Executive Director of the hospital said.
