Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has issued a strict directive to all DMK ministers, MLAs and district secretaries, barring them from foreign travel until the completion of the 2026 assembly elections, media reports said on Tuesday.

Stalin’s instruction came after an internal review of the party’s grassroots preparedness revealed that many of the welfare schemes launched in the last four-and-a-half years have not been effectively communicated to the public.

The DMK president has been conducting one-on-one meetings with constituency-level administrators at the party headquarters in Chennai over the past several weeks. He has met more than 150 constituency in-charges so far, according to an IANS report.

“The surveys indicate that the public’s connection with the DMK has weakened be

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