Tamil Nadu to recommend Jayalalithaa's name for Bharat Ratna

Chennai, Dec 10: The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday decided to recommend to the Union government to confer the Bharat Ratna on late Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa. A meeting of the state Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam, passed a condolence resolution on Jayalalithaa's death, and also passed a resolution to recommending to the central government that she be conferred the country's highest honour. The cabinet also decided request the Union government to install a brass statue of Jayalalithaa in the Parliament's central hall. The other decisions taken at the cabinet meeting were to build a memorial for Jayalalithaa at an outlay of Rs 15 crore; rename Bharat Ratnaj Dr MGR (M.G.Ramachandran) memorial to Bharat Ratna Dr.Puratchi Thalaivar MGR and Puratchi Thalaivi Amma Selvi J.Jayalalithaa memorial.