Chennai, Feb. 17 -- Amid the ongoing Assembly session and taking time from his busypolitical and election schedule, AIADMK General Secretary and Leader of the OppositionEdappadi K. Palaniswami, today paid rich tributes to Party Founder and matinee idolM G Ramachandran, popularly called as MGR at the grand celebration marking the 225thday of the re-release of his iconic 1975 film Idhayakani at a city theatre on Tuesday evening.

Addressing a large gathering of party cadres, film enthusiasts, and admirers of MGR, hedeclared that history itself stands testimony to MGR's unmatched contribution to bothTamil cinema and Tamil Nadu politics.

"It was the Puratchi Thalaivar (revolutionary leader as he was called) MGR who had laidthe foundation for t...