Delays during DMK govt. is the reason industries moved to Andhra Pradesh, says Keerthana

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Industries Minister S. Keerthana.

Industries Minister S. Keerthana. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM

Industries Minister S. Keerthana said connected Saturday that 2 concern houses, which had shown involvement successful investing successful Tamil Nadu, moved to Andhra Pradesh lone due to the fact that of the inordinate hold they faced astatine antithetic stages during the erstwhile Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government.

Facts and timelines

Speaking to reporters successful Sivakasi, the Minister said she was successful possession of definite “facts” that revealed the existent reasons down the concern houses’ switching to the neighbouring State.

“I person impervious for each these facts and volition contiguous them with the timelines astatine the Assembly,” Ms. Keerthana said.

“The TVK-led authorities is lone 30 days old. Do you deliberation immoderate capitalist volition alteration their caput wrong specified a abbreviated period? It requires a agelong process, specified arsenic biology clearance (for mounting up concern units). Only due to the fact that of the hold (in those processes), they person near Tamil Nadu,” Ms. Keerthana said.

Charging that erstwhile former Minister T.R.B. Rajaa was inactive behaving similar helium was the Industries Minister, she said helium would person to travel to presumption with the information that radical had voted for change. “It [the DMK] should beryllium acceptable to judge this information and respect the elected representatives and the radical [who had voted them],” she said.

Ms. Keerthana said mentation of the imaginativeness papers for transforming Tamil Nadu into a $1.5-trillion system by 2036, arsenic envisaged by Chief Minister C. Josephy Vijay, was nether way. “It should beryllium acceptable precise soon”, she said, adding that the TVK-led authorities was successful talks with fewer concern units seeking their investments successful the State, and signing of memoranda of knowing with them would hap soon.

Ms. Keerathana said she was acceptable to clarify connected the borrowings made by the DMK authorities successful the Assembly. “It would person been amended if the [previous] authorities had spent the borrowed wealth for the payment of the State’s people,” she added.

Published - June 20, 2026 11:44 p.m. IST

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