November 1st is Tamil Nadu Day - Ramdoss slams MK Stalin
Ramadoss said, "MK Stalin, the chief minister of tamil Nadu, has announced that each of the 110 martyrs who died in the tamil Nadu data-border conflict will receive Rs. 1 lakh. That's fantastic. At the same time, november 1, the date on which today's tamil Nadu was established, is not tamil Nadu Day, unless it is to commemorate the data-border struggle; on the contrary, the Chief Minister's statement that July 18, the date on which the resolution calling for the renaming of chennai province as tamil Nadu in 1967 was passed in the Assembly, cannot be accepted.
Over the last several days, an unnecessary debate has erupted over whether tamil Nadu Day should be commemorated indefinitely. MK Stalin, the chief minister of tamil Nadu, listened to them and declared July 18 as tamil Nadu Day, announcing the formation of the administration. The day the resolution calling for the province of chennai to be renamed tamil Nadu Day was voted in the Assembly, as well as the day it was implemented on january 14, 1969, are both significant.
There were only nine states and three union territories when india became a republic. When the linguistic states were founded on november 1, 1956, india was divided into 14 states and six union territories as a result of the subsequent struggles that occurred across the country. Until then, the majority of the chennai province, which included parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala, had been separated into new states based on the languages spoken by the locals. Only the territory that is currently known as tamil Nadu was designated as the new state of chennai in 1956."