Defense Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to release a Rs 100-commemorative coin in honor of the centenary of late DMK president M Karunanidhi. The coin, named "Muthamizh Arignar Kalaignar Centenary Commemorative Coin," will be released during a function in Chennai.
The ceremony will be in the presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin, also president of the ruling DMK and son of Karunanidhi. A battery of state ministers and other dignitaries is slated to attend the event at Kalaivanar Arangam.
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Karunanidhi was an astute leader of the Dravidian movement. He had been chief minister five times and was nearly five-decades-long leader of the DMK until his demise in 2018.
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