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01/11/22 13:28 PM IST

Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar

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  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to freedom fighter, Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar on the occasion of his Guru Pooja.
About 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.
  • Thevar 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.
  • Aide of Netaji: 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  • He was instrumental in getting the Criminal Tribes act repealed after continuous efforts in 1946.
  • Criminal Tribes Act criminalized entire communities by designating them as habitual criminals.
Source- PIB

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