Soon, the entire crowd was dancing and laughing… which is when Karunanidhi and his son, then Deputy CM M K Stalin, arrived,” Ramasundaram, who also shook a leg that day, laughs.Įxplained | Concern over north Indian workers in Tamil Nadu: What the numbers say about India’s migrants As the song ‘Khaike paan Banaras wala’ from the Amitabh Bachchan-hit Don came on, people finally got up and started dancing. It was then that a journalist suggested that everyone dance, and he himself took the first steps.
“We decided to break the ice by playing some popular Hindi songs, but the workers still didn’t stir much. As they waited for the CM to arrive, the workers sat silently, intimidated by the occasion and the pomp. S Ramasundaram, one of the senior-most IAS officers at the time, says that on the day though, they ran into an unexpected problem. Apart from the food, performances were lined up of North Indian music groups, as well as other art forms in various languages. Karunanidhi’s office contacted the famous Buhari Hotel on Mount Road in Chennai to supply its mutton biryani. A date was fixed for soon after the Pongal festival and the Sangamam season, says Kanimozhi.
So, a decision was taken to hold a lavish feast – a “Bada Khana” - for the largely Hindi-speaking migrant labourers who had worked on the new Secretariat complex. Opinion | Migrant fears in Tamil Nadu: Migration is a constitutional right, a symbol of hope and prosperity
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