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President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga today unveiled a statue of a Tamil leader who devoted a lifetime to the emancipation of immigrant Indian labour employed in Sri Lanka’s plantation sector. The statue of Saumyamoorthy Thondaman, the former leader of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) was erected next to similar statues of Sinhala leaders at the old Parliamentary Complex premises in Colombo. President Kumaratunga addressing the gathering said that the late Mr. Saumyamoorthy Thondaman fought for the rights of his people but always remained within the democratic framework. She also expressed her admiration for the total commitment of the late leader to his peoples’ cause and for keeping them united and always treading the “path of democracy”.
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