Pasumpon Muthuramalingar – Birthday Celebration
- Full name: Ukrapandi Muthuramalingar
- Born: October 30, 1908 – Pasumpon, Ramanathapuram district
- Died: October 30, 1963
- Freedom fighter, patriot, and politician from Tamil Nadu.
- Initially active in the Indian National Congress; later joined the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) founded by Subhas Chandra Bose.
- Supported the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose and his policy of complete independence.
- Served as a Member of Parliament from Ramanathapuram constituency.
- He held a conference against the Criminal Law in Kamudi on May 12 and 13, 1934. Due to his continuous struggle, the law was repealed in 1948.
- He had visited Burma twice in the years 1936 and 1955.
- In 1938, he joined Comrade P. Jeevanandham in a struggle for the rights of workers working in a spinning mill in Madurai.
- During 1938, he was the leader of 23 workers’ unions in Madurai.
- He planned to hold a protest to enter the Madurai Vaidyanatha Iyer temple on the eighth Monday of July in 1939.
- He won the assembly elections held in 1946 unopposed. He contested the assembly and parliamentary elections held in 1952 and 1957 and won both.
- He won the 1962 parliamentary election despite being unable to campaign due to ill health.
- He is respectfully called “Pasumpon Muthuramalingath”.
- His memorial is located in Pasumpon. It is one of the important monuments of Tamil Nadu.
