Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday unveiled a statue of Dravidian stalwart and five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the late M. Karunanidhi, in the presence of the latter's son and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin in Chennai.
The statue, located at the campus of the multi super specialty government hospital at Omandurar Estate in Chennai, is placed a few hundred meters away from the place where the original statue was vandalised 35 years ago in the wake of AIADMK founder M.G. Ramachandran's death.
The 16-feet high bronze statue is mounted on a 14-foot high pedestal. After the formal unveiling, the Vice-President, accompanied by the Chief Minister and other leaders paid floral tributes to a portrait of Karunanidhi kept near the statue.
