Let us celebrate the KanyaKumari day 🙌
About:
The kanyakumari day celebrated by the native people of kanyakumari district for the memory of merging the Kanyakuari district to TamilNadu. They celebrate this day at November 1st each year and the history for the celebration is given below.
History:
Tamils lived in large numbers in the Thovalai,
Agastheeswaram, Kalkulam, Vilavancode, Neyyatinkarai, sengottai, Devikulam and
Peerumedu taluks of erstwhile Tranvancore State. In the Tamil regions,
Malayalam was the official language and there were only a few Tamil-medium
schools. So the Tamils met many hardships. Travancore State Government
continued rejecting the requests of Tamils.
During that period 'Travancore State Congress' favored the
idea of uniting all the Malayalam speaking regions and the formation of an
'Unified Kerala'. In protest against this idea, many Tamil leaders vacated the
party. They gathered together at Nagercoil on 16 December 1945 under the
leadership of Sam Nathaniel and formed the new political party 'All Travancore
Tamlan Congress'. That party was continuously compelling for the merger of
Tamil regions in Travancore with Tamil Nadu.
The central government had appointed Fazal Ali Commission
for the states reorganisation based on language. It submitted its report on
August 10, 1955. Based on this report, Devikulam - Peermedu and Neyyattinkara
Taluks were merged with Kerala state.
On 1956, Nov 1 - four Taluks Thovalai, Agastheeswaram,
Kalkulam, Vilavancode were recognised to form the New Kanyakumari District and
merged with Tamil Nadu State. Sengottai Taluk was merged with Tirunelveli
District. The main demand of T.T.N.C was to merger the Tamil regions with Tamil
Nadu and major part of its demand was realized. So T.T.N.C was dissolved
thereafter.
