‘Hold State function at Quit India Movement memorial column’

THOOTHUKUDIA group of villagers from Kadalaiyoor in the district appealed to the State Government to organise a function on behalf of the State to honour the ‘Quit India Movement’ martyrs from their v

THOOTHUKUDI A group of villagers from Kadalaiyoor in the district appealed to the State Government to organise a function on behalf of the State to honour the ‘Quit India Movement’ martyrs from their village. In a petition submitted at the Collectorate on Monday by the Kadalaiyoor villagers, led by Karisalbhoomi Vivasayigal Sangam president A. Varadharajan, they said 35 Kadaliyoor villagers took part in the ‘Quit India’ movement protest organised in their hamlet on August 22, 1942. When the British police opened fire at the protesters, Sankaralinga Mudaliyar was shot dead while several others were seriously injured. The villagers used to pay respects to the martyr in the memorial column erected in the village on this day.