As MK Stalin completes seven years as DMK president, political watchers say he runs the party much as he runs the govt—through review meetings, reports, grievance cells and structured monitoring. Prabhakar Thamilarasu explains in StateDraft
How Stalin has shaped DMK into a party permanently in election mode
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