CHENNAI, Feb. 15 -- A long pending demand of the Devendra Kula Vellalar community to delist from the Scheduled Caste and put them in the Other Backward Community would soon become a reality, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing a public meeting at the International Indoor Stadium at Chennai on Sunday after laying foundation stones for various development schemes in the State including a Discovery Centre for the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, the Prime Minister declared that the long pending demand of the Devendra Kula Vellalar community would soon become a reality. "The law which meets this demand would be introduced in the Parliament when it meets the next time," said Modi.

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