Slamming the Narendra Modi government for its newly articulated position on welfare schemes, Tamil Nadu’s finance minister, Palanivel Thiagarajan, asked why state governments should listen to the union government when it had neither constitutional authority nor stellar economic track record.
Thiagarajan made the remarks on an India Today show on Wednesday. The show’s anchor, Rahul Kanwal, asked Thiagarajan what he made of Modi’s point that states should invest in welfare schemes that lead to empowerment and “not subsidiaries that take care of your immediate requirements but don't build any capacity”.
