The Government of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday formed a high-level committee headed by the former judge of the Supreme Court Kurian Joseph to the state autonomy and the central-state relations provided for in the Constitution.
The Committee will give its provisional report in January 2026, and the full report in two years, Prime Minister MK Stalin announced Tuesday at the Legislative Assembly.
With this, CM Stalin follows in the footsteps of his father and former cm MMM Karunanidhi. In 1969, former Prime Minister M Karunanidhi had also established a committee headed by Judge PV Rajamannar to study central-state relations.
The Committee will have K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, former Vice Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University, and M Naganathan, former vice president of the State Planning Commission, as members, added Stalin.
The prime minister said that the objective of the measure is to take measures to obtain additional powers for the State. Education must be included in the state list. The rights of the states are being tasks of distance. Only if the states have the rights, the country will be unified, he said.
BJP members left the house opposing the announcement. Aiadmk members left before Stalin began their speech for not allowing them to raise certain problems.
On March 25, while responding to a special mention on the policy of two languages, the CM had said that it would soon make an announcement on the subject. “We can protect the tamil language and raise tamiles only if we ensure the autonomy of the State and maintain the rights of states,” he said.
Posted on April 15, 2025