Pen Monument in memorial of  Karunanidhi to be inaugurated on August 7

Chennai, June 8 (BPNS)

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and President of DMK, M.K. Stalin has said that the Pen Monument in memory of late Chief Minister and DMK patriarch will be inaugurated on August 7.

The Pen Monument is situated near to the Muthamil Kalaignar Karunanidhi memorial in Marina beach.

The Union Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) has given its approval to construct the 134 foot high ‘Pen Monument’ in memory of the late Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi.

The Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) leader and actor turned director, Seeman had strongly voiced his objection to the sanction given by the Environment ministry. It may be recalled that some local people had also moved the Supreme Court against the sanction of the Union Environment Ministry and urging the apex court to cancel the license given.

The DMK has already defended the project to build the ‘Pen Memorial’ stating that it was a befitting tribute to a person who was not only a political leader but a literary colossus,