Udhayanidhi Stalin, DMK’s youth wing leader and son of Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, is set to be inducted into the Tamil Nadu Cabinet on December 14.
A reshuffle of the portfolios held by some Ministers would also be undertaken on that day. Udhayanidhi is the MLA, Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni constituency.
Udhayanidhi has been holding the post of youth secretary in the DMK since 2019, a post that the current Chief Minister had held from 1982 to 2017. Before Udhayanidhi won Tamil Nadu Assembly elections in 2021, he had been one of the star campaigners for candidates from his party. During his campaign for the elections in 2021, Udhayanidhi ‘attacked’ the Union government for not constructing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai, even though the foundation was laid in 2018 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After he had won the election, Udhayanidhi introduced a robotic sewage cleaner in Chepauk, his constituency. This was the first time a machine to clean the sewers was introduced in Tamil Nadu.
Apart from politics, Udhayanidhi has also played lead roles in various Tamil movies, making his debut in Oru Kal Oru Kannadi (OKOK)