Just a few metres from the Ganga at the Mela Bhawan in Haridwar lies a massive package, wrapped in black plastic sheets and tightly bound with ropes. It is the 12-foot-tall stone statue of Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, left here after Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttarakhand Tarun Vijay failed to get a site allotted for it. Erode Thamilanpan, a Tamil scholar, slammed the insult meted out to the statue of saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in Haridwar.
Just a few metres from the Ganga at the Mela Bhawan in Haridwar lies a massive package, wrapped in black plastic sheets and tightly bound with ropes. It is the 12-foot-tall stone statue of Tamil poet-saint Thiruvalluvar, left here after Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttarakhand Tarun Vijay failed to get a site allotted for it. Erode Thamilanpan, a Tamil scholar, slammed the insult meted out to the statue of saint-poet Thiruvalluvar in Haridwar.
