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Life-size statue of Kalam unveiled in Rameswaram
July 27, 2016
A life-size bronze statue of former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam was unveiled at Peikarumbu in Rameswaram on the occasion of his first death anniversary.
Inaugurating the statue, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said, “Dr Kalam will live forever in our minds and hearts. His thoughts continue to be with us all the time.”
Naidu and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar also laid the foundation stone for a national memorial for the Kalam, here.
Kalam passed away on July 27 last year after he suffered a massive cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture at IIM- Shillong in Meghalaya.
