CHENNAI: The

has decided to honour freedom fighter

with a memorial in

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Chief minister J Jayalalithaa told the assembly on Wednesday that the decision to construct a memorial for Kuyili was taken following requests by RPI MLA CK Tamilarasan and CPI legislator Gunasekaran.Kuyili was a follower of Rani Velu Nachiar , the 18th century queen of Sivaganga. After her husband Muthuvaduganathaperiya Udaiyathevar was killed in a battle in 1780, Velu Nachiyar fought the British with help from Gopala Nayaker and Hyder Ali and won the battle. Her army commander Kuyili doused herself with oil, set herself ablaze and walked into a British storehouse of ammunition.While a commemorative postage stamp on Rani Velu Nachiar was released in 2008, the state will construct a memorial for Kuyili on the premises of the memorial being constructed for Velu Nachiar in Sivaganga.The CM said a memorial would be constructed for philanthropist and educationist Swami Sagajananda of Chidambaram, who had worked for the welfare of the poor. She said the memorial for Dr BR Ambedkar on Greenways road in Mandaveli would also be renovated.