Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on 15 July launched “Ungaludan Stalin” (Stalin With You), a statewide programme intended to bring senior officials and ministers directly to local bodies to accept petitions and resolve public grievances on the spot. The initiative was unveiled in the coastal town of Chidambaram in Cuddalore district, with Transport Minister S.S. Sivasankar simultaneously rolling it out in Ariyalur and Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin presiding over a Chennai event, signalling that the scheme will operate concurrently across districts. According to the state government, each camp will deploy department heads authorised to grant approvals or sanctions, cutting delays that typically arise when residents shuttle between offices. The administration says the format is designed to fast-track welfare benefits and civic services without additional budgetary allocations, relying instead on redeploying existing staff and digital monitoring of petition disposal. Opposition parties questioned the timing of the drive. BJP leaders Tamilisai Soundararajan and Narayanan Thirupathy argued that the Chief Minister is seeking visibility after what they called four and a half years of limited engagement, while AIADMK general secretary and Opposition Leader Edappadi K. Palaniswami dismissed the effort as a repackaged version of earlier grievance-redress schemes and accused the government of using the bureaucracy for electioneering. Stalin paired the outreach launch with a string of public events. He led a four-kilometre roadshow in Mayiladuthurai before unveiling a statue of his late father and former chief minister M. Karunanidhi. A day later, the ₹408-crore fully air-conditioned Kalaignar Dr. M. Karunanidhi Integrated Bus Terminal in Tiruchirappalli—first inaugurated in May—opened to passengers, with Municipal Administration Minister K.N. Nehru flagging off the maiden services. Together, the grievance-redress camps and high-profile infrastructure projects form the cornerstone of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government’s push to showcase administrative reach and development credentials as it positions itself for a renewed mandate in the 2026 Assembly election.