Flaying the dissolution of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, headed by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph, by the TVK government, DMK president M K Stalin said it was a major setback to the ideology of federalism and the historic efforts taken for achieving state autonomy and could not be justified on intellectual or administrative grounds.
Appreciating the work of the committee, Stalin thanked Kurian Joseph, and the two other members, former Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University K Ashok Vardhan Shetty and former Vice-Chairman of the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission M Naganathan and said he was pained over the sudden dissolution of the panel, formed under the DMK regime in April 2025 to make recommendations on Union-State relations.
The first part of the report submitted on February 16, was a high-level intellectual research, which serve as an important research document for generations to come, including constitutional scholars, legal experts, policymakers, political leaders, and students of federalism, he said.
The first report had received great attention and reception at the national level and had received kudos from many leaders cutting across party lines and distinguished legal experts and become an important contribution to national debates on the Constitution, he said.
Disbanding the group with only six months left for it to complete the second part was not appropriate since the study would have reaffirmed Tamil Nadu as a state that spoke out not only for its rights, but also for the just rights of all states in India.
He further stated that the current government’s decision to end a research project that is crucial to the future of Indian federalism, with only a few months left to complete, cannot be justified on any intellectual or administrative grounds.
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