Overview
- Releasing the manifesto in Chennai, leader S. Seeman detailed 49 promises ahead of the April 23 Assembly polls.
- NTK proposes distributing functions across five capitals—Chennai (technology), Coimbatore (industry), Madurai (culture), Kanyakumari (philosophy), with the Secretariat moved to Tiruchirappalli—to ease Chennai’s concentration of power.
- The party frames agriculture as the state’s backbone, seeking ‘National Occupation’ status for farming, large‑scale water restoration, district cold storages, river check‑dams every 15 km, and a ban on private sand and mineral mining.
- Electoral and institutional planks include mandatory voting, scrapping EVMs for paper ballots with printed slips, a directly elected President, retention of 75% of GST within Tamil Nadu, a Supreme Court bench in Chennai, Tamil-language court processes, and Tamil‑medium medical education.
- Environmental and social measures feature South Korea‑style incentive‑based waste management, strict audits with closure of polluting factories, a dedicated Trichy hospital for transgender and trans‑masculine communities, and a pledge of free education, healthcare, and drinking water if elected.