The Tamil Nadu government has approached the Madras High Court urging it to clarify that its interim order prohibiting the use of the name of any living personality in the nomenclature of government schemes would not be applicable to ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ and ‘Nalam Kaakum Stalin’ schemes.
Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice Sunder Mohan on Thursday (August 3, 2025) accepted a request made by Advocate General P.S. Raman for an early hearing of the modification petition since the Nalam Kaakum Stalin scheme was all set to be launched across the State on Saturday (August 2, 2025).
If there can be ‘Namo’ and ‘Amma’ schemes, why not ‘Ungaludan Stalin’, asks DMK
The judges said, the petition, if filed by Friday, would be taken up for hearing on Monday (August 4, 2025). Within a couple of hours, a modification plea was filed by the State government in the High Court Registry along with a detailed affidavit sworn by Public department secretary Reeta Harish Thakkar.
The affidavit said the public outreach programme titled ‘Ungaludan Stalin’ had been in operation for quite sometime now and even the public interest litigation petitioner C.Ve. Shanmugam, in whose case the interim order was passed, had not sought any ex-parte interim order against that scheme.
