DEHRADUN, Jan. 15 -- BJP leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay celebrated Pongal at Madurai, today, and said it is a festival of social harmony. He promised on the occasion to establish a statue of Thiruvalluvar at Kashi under the programme 'From Kaveri Banks to Thiagaraja Samadhi at Kashi. He also said that Kamban Medhu near Tanjavur would be developed as a National Culture Centre. He began the cleaning and beautification of Poet Kamban's birthplace, which is presently lying in ruins.

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