I Want To Make Tamil Nadu The Number One State, Says TN CM MK Stalin

Stalin had created by becoming the first chief minister to participate in a gram sabha meeting, according to media reports.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday said he wants to make Tamil Nadu the number one state in the country. 

According to a report in the Times of India, the Chief Minister while speaking at gram sabha meeting in Papapatti panchayat in Madurai district said that he had been voted the best performing chief minister in a media survey but what he really wants to do is make Tamil Nadu the number one state in the country.

The report said that Stalin had created by becoming the first chief minister to participate in a gram sabha meeting. 

Quoting the Chief Minister, the report said that he had come to Papapatti village only because the village stood for social equality and recalled how the DMK government had achieved the impossible by conducting a local body election in the village in 2006.

"This was achieved by the officers Ashok Vardhan Shetty and T Udhayachandran. Udhayachandran was your collector then, and now he is my personal secretary,” Stalin said, as per the report.

Pointing out how the then Chief Minister had called for a celebration after elections were conducted for the reserved constituencies of Papapatti, Keeripatti, Nattarmangalam and Kottakatchiyendal he, according to the report, said that a samathuva peruvizha was organized in Chennai. It was during that function, VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan gave former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi the title of Samathuva Periyar, the report quoted the Chief Minister.