Velalar caste groups stage protest
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Naangu Thisai Velalargal Sangam, an amalgamation of caste groups with the ‘Velalar’ title, staged a protest here on Sunday opposing the Central and State governments’ move to confer the title on other caste groups.
The Sangam’s president Kongu K. Devaraj said four major caste groups – Gounder, Chettiar, Mudaliar and Pillaimar and their 40 subdivisions – opposed the Central and State governments’ move to confer the ‘Velalar’ title on the Devendrakula caste.
The Sangam was not against the governments’ move to include the Devendrakula caste group in the Most Backward Class group for reservation purpose, he said and clarified that it opposed only the move to confer the ‘Velalar’ title.