Veerappan remembered on death anniversary



SALEM: In what seemed as an attempt to appropriate Veerappan’s Tamil feelings, members of the Nam Tamizhar Iyakkam ( The new party floated by Kollywood director Seeman) tried to rekindle memories of the brigand’s saga by converging at his grave in Moolakadu near Mettur and took oath to, “uplift the dignity of Tamils”. Six years after the brigands’ death in an STF encounter on October 18, 2004, the Nam Tamilar Iyakkam picked up from where the Brigand’s wife Muthulakshmi left. With her arrest by Karnataka police a year back the memorial day of Veerappan was almost left forgotten. While many wondered there would be none to commemorate the brigand’s sixth death anniversary, the Nam Tamizhar Iyakkam members turned up and paid homage. Calling Veerappan,” Ellai Katha Porali Veerappanar ( A revolutionary who protected our borders)” the cadres of the Tamil outfit took oath at the grave. “On Tamil - our breadth we swear, On our guiding leader’s history we swear , On the Sleeping lions we swear, we will no longer be in indignity”. They also pasted posters hailing Veerappan as “Ellai Katha Porali Veerappanr” in many parts of Salem. The party’s district convener Arun presided.