Tiruchirappalli, May 9 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday said a state-of-the-art library to be set up in Tirunelveli, would be named after IUML leader Muhammed Ismail (1896-1972), popularly known as Quaid-e-Millat.

Addressing a global Islamic Tamil literary conference at a college here, Stalin recalled that he had already made an announcement in the state assembly that a library on a large scale would be established in Tirunelveli district. "That library will be named after Quaid-e-Millat," he said. Further, referring to a request, he announced an Islamic Tamil literary research chair in the Madras University and assured all efforts in this respect.

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The CM, referring to service to the Tamil language by scholars including Justice M M Ismail, Kavi Ka Mu Sherif, Kunangudi Mastan Sahib and Seikuthambi Pavalar, said, "Tamil will bring us together... let us come together as Tamils."

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