The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi was blessed on May 27 by the Adheenams before the Sengol installation in New Parliament House on May 28.
- The Prime Minister underscored the role of the great tradition like Adheenam in keeping the Tamil culture vibrant even after hundreds of years of slavery.
- He also credited exploited and deprived masses who nurtured it.
- At that time in 1947 Thiruvaduthurai Adheenam created a special Sengol.
- Nearly 30 pontiffs from different Adheenams of Tamil Nadu attended the new Parliament Building inauguration.
- Adheenams are non-Brahmin Shaivite monastic mutts in Tamil Nadu.
- There are about 20 main adheenams.
- The Thiruvavaduthurai adheenam was given the task of getting the Sengol or sceptre ready for the transfer of power is itself 400 years old.
