DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday, alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had advocated for the rights of States while he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat, has now, after assuming the office of PM, deprived States of their rights.
“PM Modi does not like the words, (in the Constitution) ‘India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.’ He wants to destroy the States or reduce them to the status of municipalities,” Mr. Stalin, alleged in the third episode of his podcast, ‘Speaking for India’.
The DMK leader said it would not be an exaggeration to say the BJP government at the Centre was mutilating the world’s largest democracy while seeking to establish a unitary leadership and a Prime Minister with unitary powers. “The worst act [of the BJP government] is interfering with the subject of education in States, and playing with the future of students. Each State has a unique culture, traditions, ideas, and the National Education Policy [NEP 2020] of the BJP government seeks to destroy all of this. It will take 10 episodes [of my podcast] to explain the BJP’s attempt to take away the rights of States,” he contended.
