The DMK East District today distributed welfare packages worth ₹15 lakh to the people in the area, to mark the 97th birthday of former chief minister and DMK patriarch, M Karunanidhi.
Coimbatore: The Coimbatore East District DMK today distributed welfare packages worth Rs. 20 lakhs to the people in various parts of the city, to mark the 97th birthday of former chief minister and DMK patriarch, M Karunanidhi.
Earlier, the district in-charge and party MLA, N Karthik and Urban West District in-charge, Muthusami paid floral tributes to the portrait of Karunanidhi at the party office in the presence of many party leaders and cadres.
Later, packages containing rice and groceries were distributed to 1000 under privleged families at Singanallur Karumbukadai grounds. Packages of rice and groceries and bread packets were distributed to 1000 families in Velandipalayam. Edayarpalayam witnessed 100 families being provided with relief packages containing rice, groceries and vegetables.
Around 1400 families from Selvapuram and Selvapuram North Housing Unit feasted on biriyani and sweets provided by the DMK cadres. Around 500 people participated in an 'annadhanam" arranged at RS Puram to mark the birthday of M Karunanidhi.
Hundred autorickshaw drivers at Cross Cut road in Gandhipuram were given uniforms. Rice and vegetables were distributed to 800 families including those of physically challenged persons in the area.
Relief packages and food were provided to the poor and in different areas in and around the city by party leaders and cadres.