Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalaithaa Declares Open Nesamony Memorial Thursday Feb 27,2014

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday Feb 27,2014 declared open a memorial for “Marshal” A. Nesamony (1895-1968) in Nagercoil through video-conferencing from the Secretariat.

 The memorial had been constructed at a cost of about Rs.48.7 lakh

TN Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said that as a mark of tribute to Nesamony,November 1 [the day on which Kanyakumari was transferred to Tamil Nadu], floral homage should be paid to the statue of Nesamony in Nagercoil.

About Nesamony

hailed for his role in integrating the district of Kanyakumari [which was originally with the erstwhile Travancore princely state] with Tamil Nadu, Nesamony was an advocate by profession

held various positions including  -
chairperson of the Nagercoil municipality (1943-47)
Member of Travancore Legislative Assembly (1943-47) and
Member of Travancore-Cochin State (1948-52 )
declared unopposed in Killiyoor Assembly constituency in 1957

as leader of Travancore Tamil Nad Congress Party, he won from the Nagercoil parliamentary constituency in 1951 and later, as a nominee of the Congress(INC) was re-elected from the constituency in 1962 and 1967