While Tamil Nadu was forced to borrow or seek outside investment without proper allocation, the Union government used “unjust and underhanded methods” to block progress of the State on those fronts too, Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Information Technology Palanivel Thiaga Rajan charged on Friday.
In a social media post, Mr. Rajan shared a video and recalled his participation in the ‘Fight to Protect Federalism’ protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Thursday (February 8), and said: “As our leader [Chief Minister M.K. Stalin] points out, the cumulative effect is nothing but a blatant attempt to subjugate states and reduce them to mere municipalities (at best).”
He said during his speech in Delhi he had listed the many ways in which the Union government “cuts the fair share of funding to the states and then puts onerous conditions on what little funding it provides.”
