Chennai, 29 Aug

BJP leader K Annamalai on Friday alleged that people's grievance petitions brought to the government's notice under the DMK regime's outreach programme 'Ungaludan Stalin,' (Stalin with you) were thrown away like garbage in a river in south Tamil Nadu.

Hitting out at the DMK regime, Annamalai alleged that giving fancy names for its schemes and wasting taxpayers' money on publicity has become the hallmark of this "patch work-model DMK government."

"The so-called Ungaludan Stalin Scheme launched recently has now been exposed as a set of petitions representing grievances that were found floating in the Vaigai River in Sivagangai district."

"In the last 4 years, DMK's lofty poll promises have gone down the drain, and today, even the people’s grievances are being thrown away like garbage," the former state unit chief of the BJP alleged in a social media post.

Annamalai posted a 1.04 minute video clip which showed bunches of petitions purportedly submitted by the people to the authorities in Sivaganga district under the outreach programme floating on water.

DMK's reaction was not available immediately.

On 15 July, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin launched the outreach programme 'Ungaludan Stalin,' (Stalin with you) to take government services to the people and redress grievances by organising special camps in their neighbourhoods.

Starting from 15 July and till November, 10,000 camps (3,768 in urban areas and 6,232 in rural areas) would be organised to redress grievances, Stalin had already announced.