DMK MLA launches outreach drive in Trichy
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Trichy: Ahead of the 2026 assembly election, Manachanallur DMK MLA S Kathiravan launched 'Makkaludan Manachanallur' (Manachanallur with people), a grievance redressal drive to receive petitions from all villages in his constituency.
The MLA said that he would visit one panchayat a day, and people from hamlets within the panchayat will be mobilized in open areas to share their grievances. The drive takes place from 5pm to 9pm following which biriyani is served to the villagers. "Since July 14, I have covered five panchayats. Some panchayats will have two hamlets while some up to seven, and all hamlets will be focussed," Kathiravan told TOI. My team would then follow up with the petitions on behalf of villagers to revenue and DRDA departments, he added.
Most of the petitions received were for availing 1,000 financial assistance provided for women, and for free house pattas.
Party sources recalled that one of the reasons for the early outreach programme is due to tough times faced by the MLA during the 2021 assembly election campaign. While the MLA hails from a non-dominant caste (reddiyar) in the constituency, a few villages with mutharaiyars as the majority caste had stopped Kathiravan from campaigning in the 2021 assembly election.
Since Manachanallur became an assembly segment after delimitations in 2008, Kathiravan was the first DMK candidate to be elected.
"Villagers have accepted me now, the reception is good even in areas where AIADMK was strong in the past," the MLA said.
Kathiravan, son of educationalist A Srinivasan, founder of Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Group, added that he fulfilled the promise of providing medical care to around 60,000 people from his constituency at his hospitals in Samayapuram, Trichy and Perambalur.
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