The Hindu – 11 Jan 2015

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/bjp-mp-vows-to-take-thirukkural-across-india/article6779251.ece

 

BJP MP vows to take Thirukkural across India

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BJP MP Tarun Vijay and Union Minister of State for Shipping and Highways Pon. Radhakrishnan at Thiruvalluvar statue in Kanyakumari on Sunday.— Photo: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN

Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP from Uttarakhand Tarun Vijay has vowed to take the teachings of saint poet Thiruvalluvar to every nook and cranny of the country.

Beginning his “Thiruvalluvar Thiruppayanam” after offering prayer to Thiruvalluvar statue here, Mr Tarun Vijay said Thirukkural couplets were the best example for national integration.

Later speaking at a felicitation function at South Mada Street, he said the glory of Thirukkural and the biography of Thiruvalluvar would be taken to every college and school across the country.

He would strive to include the biography of Thiruvalluvar in school and college curriculams in north India as the work of the saint poet was advocated equality, he noted.

Thirukkural couplets should be written on the back of every vehicle. The cultural values and history of north and south should be exchanged elaborately, he stressed.

Holy water from the Ganga and soil from the house where poet Subramania Bharati stayed in Varanasi were brought and kept at the feet of Thiruvalluvar statue.

The holy water was poured into the sea at Kanyakumari and the soil would be handed over at the residence of Bharathi at Ettayapuram, he noted.

He said he felt like the son of Tamil Nadu though he was born in Uttarakhand. He would establish a “Tamil Learning Centre” in Dehradun, he added.

Union Minister of State for Shipping and Highways Pon. Radhakrishnan, BJP State president Tamizhisai Soundarrajan, State vice-president Vanathi Srinivasan, BJP national secretary H. Raja and others participated.

 The New Indian Express – 11 Jan 2015

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Kural-Can-Help-Curb-Extremism/2015/01/12/article2615742.ece

'Kural Can Help Curb Extremism'

By Express News Service

Published: 12th January 2015 06:00 AM

Last Updated: 12th January 2015 06:00 AM

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BJP MP Tarun Vijay and Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan paying floral tributes to the statue of Tiruvalluvar, in Kanyakumari on Sunday | express

NAGERCOIL: Following the path of the Thirukkural, a Tamil Sangam literature, is the solution to terrorism and extremism, said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay from Uttarakhand, who kicked-off his Thirukkural Thirupayanam rally from Kanyakumari on Sunday.

Tarun Vijay, along with Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan, BJP State president Tamilisai Soundararajan, BJP national secretary H Raja and senior leaders of the party and Tamil scholars paid floral tributes at the 133-foot high Thiruvalluvar statue in the mid-sea in Kanyakumari. Later, he addressed a gathering at Sanadhi Street in Kanyakumari before starting his rally.

None would as much love their language and culture as Tamil people do, said Tarun Vijay during his address. He added, “Swami Vivekananda had asked the young to rise for a new India, and I want Tamil brothers to rise for a new Tamil Nadu.”

Thiruvalluvar is not just a poet of Tamil Nadu, but Thiruvalluvar and Thirukkural should reach all north Indian houses and schools, said Tarun Vijay. Thiruvalluvar’s biography and Thirukkural are going to be taught at schools all over India, he said, thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Cabinet Minister for Human Resource Development Smriti Irani.

While Tarun Vijay talked about Thirukkural, Silapathikaram and other Tamil literatures in the Parliament, all political party representatives from Tamil Nadu including the DMK and the AIADMK stood and applauded him, he said.

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Tarun Vijay calls on Union Tourism Minister

Beijing Bulletin (ANI) Tuesday 6th January, 2015

Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament Tarun Vijay called on Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation Dr. Mahesh Sharma here on Monday.

During the meeting, he requested Dr. Sharma for getting the statue of Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar at Kanyakumari connected with a bridge to the main land.

In his representation, Vijay said that Thiruvalluvar is India's symbol of culture, philosophy and civilization and millions of tourists have to reach the grand statue after crossing the rough sea.

"Constructing the bridge will be a significant contribution for India's culture and especially for the great Tamil society," he said.

Vijay also invited Dr. Sharma to visit the Thiruvalluvar Statue on January 11 to pay homage to the great saint and join the ThiruvalluvarThiruPayanam.

Culture Secretary Ravindra Singh and Tourism Secretary Lalit Panwar were also present during the meeting. (ANI)

Thiruvalluvar Thiru Payanam - Tarun Vijay begins ‘Kural’ yatra

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The Hindu- Jan 11, 2015 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/bjp-mp- tarun-vijay-begins-kural-yatra/article6777824.ece Thiruvalluvar Thiru Payanam BJP MP Tarun Vijay begins ‘Kural’ yatra

BJP MP Tarun Vijay on Sunday embarked on a yatra to propagate awareness about Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar. The MP along with state unit president of the BJP Tamilisai Soundararajan offered floral tributes to the statue of Thiruvalluvar off the Kanyakumari coast. Addressing a meeting before launching the yatra on a van, he said ‘Tirukural’ is a great literary work which preached humaneness. ‘Tirukural’ is a classic Tamil literature authored by Thiruvalluvar. “It is a literary work about which not only Tamils...but the Indian community as a whole can feel proud of. It has been decided by the government to celebrate the birth anniversary of the poet through out the nation and also popularise ‘Tirukural’ in schools and colleges,” he said. The government is also determined to popularise the works of patriotic poet Subramania Bharati, he said. The yatra will culminate at Chennai via Ettayapuram (birth place of Bharati), Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Villupuram.

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Tarun Vijay organises a unique state formation day in Dehradun-Jay Jay Uttarakhand. Rise to create a new Uttarakhand-vibrant,secure and prosperous- Resolve the luminaries in a Grand Uttarakhand Rajyotsav in Dehradun Seven young, devoted innovators and cultural ambassadors felicitated with Ma Nanda Devi Samman

Lighting the lamp to inaugurate the function- L to R- Shri Tarun Vijay, Shri Aziz Qureshi, Shri Shyam Jaju, Shri Chandrapal Singh Negi and Shri Tirath Singh Rawat

Smt Neelam Sahgal welcoming Shri Shyam Jaju

View of the audience

On the dias- L to R- Dr Harish, Shri Tarun Vijay, Shri Aziz Qureshi, Shri Shyam Jaju, Shri Chandrapal Singh Negi, Smt Neelam Sahgal, Shri Manojit Sinha

Students of the Aryan School, who sang Jay Jay Uttarakhand song,  having a photo op with guests

Famous Jagar singer Smt Basanti Bisht receiving Ma Nanda Samman

Shri Sachidanand Bharati receiving samman 

Dr Kuriyal for serving poor patients

Dr Deepak Tiwari for research in herbs and defeating blood cancer

Dr Kamla Pant for innovation in education

Km Arti Balodi for women empowerment

Shri Yashwant Datta receiving Ma Nanda Samman for creative art and graphic designing

Shri Vijay Jardhari for agricultural innovation

Smt. Basanti Bisht for nanda jagar- folk art, Smt Kamla Pant, innovation in hill area education, Dr Kudiyal for serving the poor , Shri Yashwant Datta, for creative art and music, Shri Vijay Jardhari for innovation in agriculture, Shri Deepak Tiwari, for herbal research, Km Arti Balodi  for women empowerment activities, 

Tarun Vijay's creation-Jai Jai Uttarakhand, Uttarakhand-Rajya Geet released amidst big applause-sung in a mesmerizing way by Aryan School students

BJP National Secy Shri Shyam Jaju, BJP MP Shri Tarun Vijay , RSS Prant Sanghchalak Shri Chandra Pal Singh Negi, RSS Prant Pracharak Dr Harish, State BJP President Shri Tirath Singh Rawat, BJP Dehradun Prez Smt Neelam Sahgal, joined a programme to observe Uttarakhand Foundation day Eve . Governor Shri Aziz Qureshi lauds the spirit and distributes the awards. Noted author and editor Shri Prabhakar Uniyal was the convener conducting the function with grace and literary touch.
A Jagran media report

Blessed are those who could do Kailas Manasarovar pilgrimage successfully

With blessings of Lord Shiva, had an opportunity to felicitate the Kailas Manasarovar Yatris in New delhi. I was invited by the President of Delhi govt.'s Teerth Yatra Vikas Samiti, Shri Uday Prakash ji, himself a deeply spiritual person and a committed devotee to serve the kailas Yatris, to felicitate the successful yatris and distribute the yatra Certificate to them. It was an emotional occasion, I remembered how in 1992 I did the Kailas Yatra and later started felicitating the Yatris as the first President of Teerth Yatra Vikas Samiti of Delhi govt. there is no joy as great, no bliss as divine as Kailas Manasarovar Yatra. 

Modi's America Vijay-what it means for us

Tarun Vijay

With Shakti and Bhakti of Bharat Narendra  Modi achieved an unprecedented America -Vijay  at Madison. Empowered in Navratra with a Shakti  drawn from Mother Durga and devotion to Mother India he trounced the Mahishasuras of despondency and deIndianised voices of doom.

His biggest victory is over the highly accented, opinionated English speaking class, who had been witch-hunting him for the last decade. It's not just a visa-denier US, but  the home grown , rich and self-anointed  guardians of sham secular values that has seen its Talibani arrogance completely threaded and dustbinned.

No , Modi can't do, Modi will be disastrous for the country's secular fabric, look, he can't even speak English, mocked a senior editor on an elitist English channel. They hit hard at his Hindu ness, so far  they had been successfully turning every leader to be apologetic being a Hindu , the only litmus test to be a secular was to be disdainful of the Hindu word .The class that refused to treat Muslims as an equal citizens , as an Indian, and rather treated  them as the sacrificial lambs of the vote bank Eid,  the class that was considered to be the reservoir of all wisdom, prudence, marketing deep concern with a Gucci touch for their nation  (read Malabar hills to Gurgaon) , the candle and jholawalla dollar - Intellectuals, all saw their highly inflated egos punctured at the Mecca of their secular shamanism- New York.

The Bhakti and shakti of a village boy, the devoted child of Mother India was taking it as naturally , with hundred hours on pure water, in his own stride as perhaps Vivekananda did when  he addressed World Council of Religions in Chicago in   a same September 121 years ago.

A n America Vijay has always been more pronouncedly significant for a home turf than any defence  or  energy agreements signed at White House. Modi has delivered his second Red Fort speech  from Madison. The only difference is, this time his audience consisted of people listening him in 80 different countries.


The Oxbridge accented  class that spewed venom through long essays front paged by glossy south delhi magazines and the precipitated hate of the sirens of Indian media houses often controlled by jute mill and sugar cane factory barons, will have to find a new ground to earn their fellowships or a line or two in an op- ed of a pathetically sick leader writer. Smart as they are, many of them have already started learning Hindi and Gujarati!!