The chief minister handed over a memorandum containing the demands of a new agricultural university that was promised to the state, as well as substantial additional funds and subsidies from the Centre.
While extending solidarity with the Congress leadership, Stalin accused the BJP of being ‘hell-bent on hounding the Gandhi family’.
"Yet another betrayal by the Prime Minister. Even before his speech made before farmers could vanish and his visit to Coimbatore could become a thing of past, the Union Government has turned down our request to enhance moisture content in paddy for procurement from the present 17 percent to 22 percent, in view of the monsoon rains," he wrote on his 'X' timeline.
He said that it was only after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister in 2014 that the decades of discrimination ended, and the region began receiving its due and legitimate share.
The opposition alleges the government is avoiding discussions on key issues, including unemployment and federalism, and is instead prioritizing passing bills without adequate debate.
The Congress president cited a letter written by Sardar Patel on February 4, 1948, where he expressed concern over the RSS's role in creating an atmosphere that led to Gandhi's assassination.
Making this announcement at a press conference, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw said: "This decision aims to ensure the availability of fertilizers to farmers at subsidized and affordable prices."
Addressing a press conference, Congress Rajya Sabha member Akhilesh Prasad Singh and party media coordinator Abhay Dubey slammed the Modi government for falling drastically short of its pledge.
Taking to social media platform X, Ramesh wrote, “Another day, another revelation of how the Modi Government has bulldozed the Great Nicobar Mega Infra Project through due process. Now we learn that official maps of the island have been airbrushed to remove corals from the map.”
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday sharply criticised the Narendra Modi-led government for systematically weakening the Right to Information (RTI) Act, describing it as an attack on democracy and citizens’ fundamental rights.
