Sarvajna and Tiruvalluvar statue installation

The Thiruvalluvar Statue is a statue of the Tamil poet saints Tiruvalluvar in Bangalore, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located in Ulsoor, a district with a high proportion of the population of Tamil immigrants. The Thiruvalluvar statue was subject to a long-lasting dispute between Kannada and Tamil nationalists and caused tensions between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. After she was already established in 1992, it could be revealed only in 2009.

The poet Tiruvalluvar written probably in the 5th or 6th century, the instructive Verssammlung Tirukkural. The Tirukkural enjoys among Tamils ​​enormously high reputation, its author Tiruvalluvar shall be recognized as a kind of Tamil national saint. Significant Tiruvalluvar monuments include the Thiruvalluvar Statue in Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India and the Valluvar Kottam in Chennai ( Madras), the capital of Tamil Nadu.

The Thiruvalluvar statue of Bangalore has already been set up in Ulsoor in 1992, but could not at first be revealed. This was due to protests by Kannada - nationalists who oppose immigration from Tamil Nadu and other parts of the country after Bangalore. In addition, the relations between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are tense, among other things because of a water dispute over the Kaveri River. Only after the Tamil Nadu government had assured the erection of a statue of Kannada poet Sarvajna in Chennai, it came to an agreement. 9 August 2009 finally revealed M. Karunanidhi and BS Yeddyurappa, the Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, together the Tiruvalluvar statue in Bangalore, four days later was followed by the unveiling of the Sarvajna statue in Chennai.