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- P Thiagarajan from Madurai became the state's second non-brahmin priest in Tamilnadu.
- He was appointed as a priest in Siddhi Vinayakar Temple in Nagamalai Pudukkottai.
- It comes under the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) department.
- T Marichamy from Madurai was appointed as Tamil Nadu's first non-brahmin priest at the Ayyappan temple in Tallakulam in February 2018.
- The Madras Hindu Religious Endowment Act by the first Justice Party government in 1925 brought many Hindu temples under the direct control of the State government.
- Later, in 1982, the then Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran appointed Justice Maharajan commission to identify reform measures to be taken in temple practices.
- The Karunanidhi-led DMK government issued a landmark Government Order (GO) allowing non-brahmins to become archakars in temples managed by the Department of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE), in the year 2006.
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