Congress veteran and former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan and Kerala Finance Minister K.N. Balagopalan on Friday accused the Union government of eroding the powers of the States on a number of key issues.
They were participating at a colloquium, ‘India at Crossroads: Democracy, Growth and Development’, on the topic, ‘The future of co-operative journalism’, at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai.