Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to the freedom fighter — Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar — on the occasion of his guru pooja.
Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar:
- Born on October 30, 1908, in Pasumpon in the Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu, he was a freedom-fighter cum spiritual leader and was seen as a deity among the Mukulathor community.
- He did not accept traditional Hinduism because it supported the ‘Varnashrama’.
- He regularly fought against the evils of the Hindu religion.
- He became a full-time member of the Congress party and attended the 1927 Congress session at Madras as a volunteer when he was just 19.
- He became a close aide of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
- He was elected three times to the national parliamentary constituency of the All India Forward Bloc.
- He supported the temple entry movement and he helped the activist Vaidyanatha Iyer take Dalits to Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.
- He was instrumental in getting the Criminal Tribes act repealed after continuous efforts in 1946.
