The victory did not, however, land in Stalin's lap and he worked towards it by reaching out to people systematically by targeting the Centre and state governments on many issues.
Be it the National Education Policy, the Citizenship Amendment Act, farm laws or raising voice to bring education back to the state list of the Constitution, he said the BJP- led Centre was 'anti-people.'
Stalin's narrative was that the BJP government trampled on the rights of states and was against Tamil culture and imposed Hindi and Sanskrit and by being 'subservient' to such a regime, the AIADMK too was against people formed part of his narrative.