Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday denied any injustice to Tamil Nadu by the Centre as claimed by M K Stalin over fund allocation and described as diversionary attempts, the Chief Minister raking up the delimitation issue.
Refuting Stalin’s claims, Shah said the Narendra Modi government had provided ₹5,08,337 crore to the state during the 2014-24 period.
Misinformation campaign on delimitation exercise
Also, he accused Stalin of spreading a misinformation campaign about the delimitation exercise. Seeking to put to rest speculation on the subject, he asserted that no southern state, including Tamil Nadu, would see a reduction in Parliamentary representation when delimitation would be done on a pro-rata basis.
Anti-national tendency
Lashing out at the ruling DMK dispensation on the ‘failure’ of law and order in the state, Shah, speaking after inaugurating the BJP party office here, said, “the anti-national tendency is at all-time high in Tamil Nadu.” “Tamil Nadu government provided security during the last journey of 1998 bomb blast accused and mastermind (SA Basha),” the Home Minister said.
He claimed the drug mafia enjoyed a free hand in selling drugs in the state and that the illegal mining mafia was making politics corrupt here.
“All the leaders of DMK have got Master’s degree in corruption,” he charged at the event.
While the state’s people were anguished over several issues, “the CM and his son (Udhayanidhi) have taken up some issue to divert public attention.” “They are going to do a meeting on delimitation saying we won’t allow any injustice to south,” Shah said about the March 5 all-party meeting convened by the TN government over the issue.
The Modi government has made it clear in the Lok Sabha that no southern state will lose even one seat after delimitation, the BJP veteran said.
On Assembly polls
He exuded confidence that the NDA would come to power in Tamil Nadu next year after the Assembly elections and that the win would be bigger than the saffron bloc’s Maharashtra and Haryana victories.
On the occasion, Shah virtually inaugurated the party offices at Tiruvannamalai and Ramanathapuram.