'Discriminatory attitude towards TN': Chief Minister Stalin skips Niti Aayog meeting

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday justified his absence from the award ceremony. Niti Aayog Meeting summoned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said he was “compelled” to seek justice because of the “discriminatory attitude” towards Tamil Nadu reflected in the budget.
The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, who led the opposition boycott, also stepped on the accelerator on Saturday and termed the budget presented by the Modi 3.0 government as “revenge” by the saffron party against the INDIA bloc and the country and claimed that more electoral defeats were in store due to its “mistake after mistake”.
Meanwhile, the CM’s party DMK staged a state-wide protest against the Union Budget, which the Dravidian party said “neglected” the southern state while few states were crucial to the Union. NDAThe survival of ‘ has been filled with blessings.

In a video posted on X, the chief minister said, “In the recent parliamentary elections, people of several states defeated the anti-people BJP. The budget presented by the Finance Minister (Nirmala Sitharaman) seems to be an act of revenge against the states and people who boycotted the BJP. Instead of preparing a budget for the welfare of all Indians, she has prepared a budget to take revenge on those who voted for the INDIA bloc,” the Tamil Nadu leader charged.

The BJP is running “the government with political motivations,” he said in the video explaining to people why he decided to boycott a Niti Aayog meeting.
The DMK chief, riding high on the success of the just-concluded assembly elections, said: “As the spokesperson of the people of Tamil Nadu, in fact, as the spokesperson of all Indians, let me say something. You are making mistake after mistake. You will suffer more and more defeats. Just as both the houses of the Indian Parliament are angry, the hearts of the people of India are also angry with you! The BJP must respond.”
The CM said the only special project that the BJP has announced for Tamil Nadu since it came to power in 2014 is the establishment of an All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Madurai, which is yet to be built despite Prime Minister Modi laying the foundation stone in January 2019. At this rate, Stalin asked, “Why would the people of Tamil Nadu vote for the BJP?”
The DMK president expressed disappointment that the BJP’s failure to secure a majority on its own in the 2024 elections has not led to a change in tone and content. “But only disappointment prevails,” Stalin said. The chief minister also accused the BJP of “deceitfully trying to cut funds” for ongoing projects.
“They do not care in the least about ruining the education of students and the teachers who teach them are not paid. All the BJP is interested in is imposing its ideology and Hindi,” the Dravidian leader charged.