Civic Reception to His Beatitude Baselios Cardinal Cleemis

The Father and Head of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, His Beatitude Moran Mor Baselios Cardinal Cleemis Catholicos, who has been created a Cardinal recently was given a civic reception at Senate Hall by the Trivandrum City Corporation on 10 December 2012. The programme began with a public reception to the New Cardinal from University college to Senate Hall. The felicitation programme began with the prayer song by Sri. Kavalam Sreekumar. Sri. Oommen Chandy, the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Kerala inaugurated the public meeting which was presided over by Sri. Pinarayi Vijayan, the State Secretary of CPI (M). Sri. V.S. Achuthanandan, the leader of Opposition delivered the keynote address. Adv. K. Chandrika, the Mayor of Trivandrum, Sri. G. Karthikeyan, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Sri. P. K. Kunjalikutty, Minister of Industries, Sri. K.M. Mani, Minister of Revenue, Sri. V.S. Sivakumar, Minister of Health, Dr. ONV Kurup, Sri. Raja  Gopal (National leader, BJP), Jamaludine Mankada (Imam, Palayam), Msgr. Eugine Pereira, Swami Sukshmananda, Sri. Sivankutty MLA, Sri. Palode Ravi MLA, Sri. M. Vijayakumar and Sri. G. Happikumar felicitated the Cardinal-Catholicos. His Beatitude replied with words of gratitude. Many dignitaries attended the programme.