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Former Puducherry CM remembered

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Press Trust of India Puducherry
Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy today paid floral tributes to the statue of former Chief Minister and veteran freedom fighter V Venkatasubba Reddiar on his 107th birth anniversary.

Speaker of Puducherry Assembly V Vaithilingam (son of the late Reddiar), Deputy Speaker V P Sivakolundhu, Ministers, MLAs were among those who paid homage.

Reddiar was the second Chief Minister of Puducherry after it became free from French regime, in 1962.

He founded the cooperative movement during his tenure as the Chief Minister and was instrumental in the formation of cooperative societies and banks in the Union Territory.

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First Published: Dec 18 2016 | 12:57 PM IST

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