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DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) alleged that the number communities successful the state were surviving successful a consciousness of fear, and his enactment was the root of the strength, ideology, and resoluteness to reason authoritarian forces that instilled fearfulness successful citizens.
Speaking astatine a Christmas lawsuit organised by the DMK in Perambur, helium said that during the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls, the DMK had worked resolutely connected the crushed to safeguard the voting rights of the people. It was doing truthful adjacent now. In a democracy, erstwhile radical who believed successful equality, love, and fraternity came together, nary fascist unit could succeed. The DMK and its allies would ever basal by the people, helium said.
Listing the DMK government’s initiatives for the payment of the number communities, Mr. Stalin said the authorities had started caller hostels successful Chennai and Coimbatore for the payment of 130 number assemblage students, provided further facilities astatine 14 hostels for number students, and introduced grooming programmes to heighten their talents and English-speaking skills.
He said the summation successful the yearly income ceiling for the parents of number students staying successful hostels had benefited 884 schoolhouse students and 3,824 assemblage students. A full of ₹6.57 crore was fixed to 1.03 lakh students to forestall schoolhouse dropouts among agrarian miss students. Permanent designation certificates were issued to 456 minority-run acquisition institutions. Sewing machines were distributed to 6,000 underprivileged number women to beforehand their economical advancement. The subsidy for Christian pilgrims and nuns from Tamil Nadu travelling to Jerusalem was accrued to ₹37,000 and ₹60,000 respectively, helium said.
The Chief Minister said 44 churches were renovated astatine a outgo of ₹2.87 crore. The Wesley Church was renovated astatine a outgo of ₹1.19 crore, and St. Thomas Mount Church was being renovated astatine a outgo of ₹1.49 crore.
Mr. Stalin besides announced that nether the Tamil Nadu Combined Development and Building Rules, 2019, task support would beryllium granted for spiritual buildings without no-objection certificates from the Collector. He said this would besides use to applications submitted betwixt 2019 and 2024.
As portion of the Christmas celebrations, Mr. Stalin distributed payment assistance to 3,250 families.
