Minjur Bhakthavatsalam was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the chief minister of Madras State from 2 October 1963 to 6 March 1967. He was the last Congress chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the last to have taken part in the Indian independence movement.
M. Bhakthavatsalam
Bhaktavatsalam at the Haripura session of the Indian National Congress, ca. 1938
Commemorative stamp
Bhaktavatsalam memorial, Gandhi Mandapam (Chennai)
The Vedaranyam March was a framework of the nonviolent civil disobedience movement in British India. Modeled on the lines of Dandi March, which was led by Mahatma Gandhi on the western coast of India the month before, it was organised to protest the salt tax imposed by the British Raj in the colonial India.
C. Rajagopalachari leading the march along with the volunteers.
A remembrance to mark the spot in Tiruchirappalli Cantonment, from where the march had begun.
The memorial at Vedaranyam