‘Name Madurai airport after Thevar’

MADURAI: Muvendar Munnetra Kazhagam will organise a conference in Madurai on August 26 to demand the

Madurai airport

be named after Pasumpon Muthuramalingam Thevar.

President of the party G M Sridhar Vandayar who spoke to the media after the party’s executive committee meeting in Madurai on Sunday, said that the

airport

must be named after the great leader. The Centre had said that the Tamil Nadu government had to issue a no objection certificate in this regard, as the state government had earlier passed a resolution that no public building would be named after a leader.

Now the state has named the Maatuthavani bus stand after former chief minister M G Ramachandran. Hence they should reconsider naming the Madurai airport after Thevar, he said. Vandayar also said that the state government should not promulgate the ban order under 144 of CrPC during important events like Thevar Guru pooja as it only causes unnecessary tension. TNN