18 years after the original plan was made, the statue was finally unveiled by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. While the venue had some 3,000 police personnel for protection, the police had also rounded up around 1,000 activists belonging to pro-Kannada organisations as a precautionary measure. You can check out Wikipedia's page on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiruvalluvar">Tiruvalluvar</a> for more information on this saint. You can also check out the <a href="http://www.tn.gov.in/literature/thiruvalluvar/thiruvalluvar.htm">Thirukkural</a>, which contains 133 chapters of 10 couplets each. Of course, the most famous statue of Tiruvalluvar, which is over 40 metres tall, is located in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiruvalluvar_Statue,_Kanyakumari">Kanyakumari</a>. You can find out more about this statue <a href="http://www.nanjilonline.com/tourism/thiruvalluvar.asp">here</a>.

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