PM Modi claims Tamil Nadu with NDA; CM Stalin demands action on pending approvals, funds

Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin connected Friday (January 23, 2026) said Tamil Nadu would ever woody setbacks to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which had been “continuously betraying” the State.

In a station connected societal media, Mr. Stalin, who raised questions for Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the latter’s sojourn to the State to code an NDA rally, alleged that Mr. Modi often visited the Tamil Nadu lone erstwhile elections approached.

Mr. Stalin was responding to a tweet by Mr. Modi, who said, “Tamil Nadu is with the NDA!”

The Prime Minister, successful his tweet, said: “I’ll beryllium joining NDA leaders astatine the rally successful Madhuranthakam aboriginal contiguous [Friday]. Tamil Nadu has decided that it’s clip to bid farewell to the corrupt DMK government. The NDA’s governance grounds and committedness to determination aspirations are striking a chord with the radical of the State.”

Countering his claim, Mr. Stalin asked: “When volition the State person its owed of ₹3,458 crore nether the Samagra Shiksha programme? When volition helium [Mr. Modi] guarantee Tamil Nadu that determination volition beryllium nary simplification successful the fig of constituencies during delimitation? When volition the atrocities of Governor [R.N. Ravi], who functions arsenic the BJP’s agent, travel to an end? When volition his [Mr. Modi’s] regime, which projects itself arsenic having greater affinity for the Tamil connection than Tamils themselves, allocate the funds owed to the Tamils? When volition determination beryllium an assurance that the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) volition proceed and that the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-GRAM G), which passes the load to States and undermines livelihood opportunities, volition beryllium abandoned?”

He further asked: “When volition the ‘eighth wonder’ of the satellite — All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) successful Madurai — which the Union authorities had been raising ‘inch by inch,’ travel up earlier our eyes? When volition we get the funds sought arsenic earthy catastrophe effect relief? When volition support travel for the Hosur airdrome and Metro Rail projects successful Madurai and Coimbatore? When volition the Keeladi study [on the archetypal 2 phases of excavations carried retired nether archaeologist K. Amarnath Ramakrishna betwixt 2014 and 2016] beryllium released? When volition the unanimous request of Tamil Nadu’s radical regarding exemption from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admittance to undergraduate aesculapian courses beryllium fulfilled?”