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TM Soundararajan’s famous song “Kashmir, beautiful Kashmir/Kashmir, wonderful Kashmir” found an echo in the Upper House during the discussion on the unrest in the State. AIADMK leader in the House A Navaneethakrishnan began his speech by reciting the first lines of the song from the movie Idhaya Veenai , which starred former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MG Ramachandran.
When Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien asked him to sing the entire song, Navaneethakrishnan, amid thumping of the desks, said his colleague V Maitreyan would be able to do so. Kurien even asked Maitreyan to sing. However, Navaneethakrishnan continued his speech. “Any film, which has been shot in Kashmir, is very, very popular in Tamil Nadu,” he said.
“Kashmir’s saffron is considered to be very good. In Tamil Nadu, every would-be-mother is given saffron because they want a beautiful child. My mother had it, my daughter-in-law had it, my granddaughter will also definitely have it. So, I am proud to say that I belong to Kashmir,” the MP said.
“I belong to Thanjavur, in the Cauvery basin, and I was under the wrong impression that Thanjavur was the only fertile land in India. But, I changed my opinion after seeing the agricultural land in Kashmir.”
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