Chennai, April 15, 2025(ANI): On Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin announcement related to formation of committee to examine state autonomy, DMK leader TKS Elangovan blasts Central Government’s federal policies and continuously compromising state autonomy.He asserted, "Tamil Nadu has consistently demanded powers for the state... We even formed a committee under the retired judge to examine and submit a report on state autonomy. But today this central government is trying to take away every possible right of the states... Post 2014, the introduction of GST stripped away states' commercial tax revenue, which was their own source of income. The money is now controlled by the Centre... They talk about 'One Nation, One Election, One Ration Card, One Language'... This means they want to erase separate statehood..."
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00:00See, state autonomy is our policy. It did not start today or even in 1921, or even after BJP, a party, a new party, BJP, which was started way back in 1980.
00:14It was there since a long time. We had been demanding more powers to the states. That is our demand.
00:21We had also formed a committee with the retired judge as the chairman and gave a report.
00:35But today the problem is that why we want to revise it and ask is that this government is trying to take all powers to them.
00:49This government is the bigger government, I can say. They take every money to them, but still they don't have money and there is no development in the country.
01:01What he says is, before Congress, before 2014, the share of the Union government was only 1,52,000 crores, but now the share had increased to more than 6,00,000 crores.
01:16Is it not a funny thing? Does the person think that people of Tamil Nadu are fools?
01:24After 2014, GST bill was introduced. After that, the commercial taxes revenue, which was the state's revenue, which had been collected by the states totally and used by the states, were taken away by the center.
01:40See, what he says is, before BJP came to power, they could give 6,42,000 crores, 1,52,000 crores out of their revenue, not out of commercial taxes.
02:01Now, after all the states, the GST had come to force. The states collect commercial taxes and give, the center collects commercial taxes and give a little amount to the states.