The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid his respects to Ayya Vaikunda Swamikal on his birth anniversary.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
He was the pioneer of the social revolutionaries of south India and Kerala.
Research scholars regard Vaikundar as a teacher, healer and also a miracle worker.
His teachings also effected many social changes in southern India, resulting in the emergence of a series of social and self-respect movements such as Upper cloth agitation, Temple entry agitation and other movements including those of Narayana Guru, Chattampi Swamikal, Vallalar and Ayyankali.