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Retrieving the Katchatheevu islet from Sri Lanka unsocial would bring astir a imperishable solution to the contented of fishermen arrests, but unfortunately, the BJP-led Union authorities has not been cooperative successful this regard, contended Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin successful Ramanathapuram connected Friday (October 3, 2025).
Speaking astatine a authorities relation to inaugurate completed projects, laic the instauration chromatic for caller ones, and administer payment assistance to those successful need, Mr. Stalin said that the Tamil Nadu Assembly had unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the retrieval of Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka.
However, neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had precocious visited the land nation, nor Union External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar showed immoderate involvement successful the matter. “For them, fishers from Tamil Nadu are little important...” Mr. Stalin claimed, adding that erstwhile the Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister categorically stated that Katchatheevu belonged to Sri Lanka, India’s External Affairs Ministry neither expressed disappointment nor disagreed with the statement. It maintained a stoic silence, helium said.
NDA delegation’s Karur visit
The Chief Minister alleged that the BJP-led Central authorities showed nary respect for the radical of Manipur, who person been suffering owed to taste violence. He added that it besides remained passive during the span illness successful Gujarat and showed nary urgency aft the stampede astatine the Kumbh Mela. However, successful the lawsuit of the assemblage crush deaths successful Karur during histrion Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam rally, the BJP promptly dispatched a delegation comprising NDA MPs. “You should recognize the existent reasons... and not beryllium deceived by this,” helium said.
Speaking astir the GST reforms, Mr. Stalin said the Union authorities had claimed to person fixed a “big bonanza” to the public. However, it was the Opposition parties that had been consistently demanding that the exorbitant taxation operation beryllium slashed, helium pointed out. He further alleged that the Union government, nether Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, gave the content that lone it had the close to regularisation the federation and did not adjacent admit the relation of States and Union Territories.
With the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections owed adjacent year, the BJP and its leaders person begun descending connected the State, Mr. Stalin said. He warned that the radical of Tamil Nadu should stay vigilant and not beryllium swayed by specified tactics. He besides criticised the AIADMK and its wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami for being hand-in-glove with the BJP, “which has consistently targeted Tamils and Tamil Nadu.”
Central funds
With respect to the sharing of Central funds, the State authorities has been forced to “run after” the Centre, which goes against the tone of the Constitution. “At immoderate cost, the DMK authorities successful Tamil Nadu volition not succumb to the designs of the Centre and volition proceed to look it boldly...”
Promising the radical that his authorities would proceed to present governance “irrespective of the threats and pressures” from the Union government, Mr. Stalin asserted that lone the ‘Dravidian model’ could genuinely triumph the enactment of the masses.
Under the guise of celebrating 100 years of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which helium claimed directs the BJP, Mr. Stalin alleged that the Union authorities appeared to beryllium changing the nomenclature of nationalist institutions. He urged the radical to retrieve the designs of the RSS, which allegedly plotted to destruct the precocious person K. Kamaraj. History should not beryllium forgotten, helium stressed, and helium cautioned the nationalist to stay vigilant.
The Chief Minister inaugurated 109 completed projects, including the opening of a caller autobus basal successful Ramanathapuram Municipality, and laid the instauration chromatic for 150 caller works successful the district. Senior Ministers K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran, R.S. Raja Kannappan, K.R. Periakaruppan, and Thangam Thennarasu, MP Navas Kani, and MLAs Muthuramalingam, S. Murugesan, and R.M. Karumanickam participated successful the event. District Collector Simranjeet Singh Kahlon was besides present.
After the event, the Chief Minister near for Madurai by roadworthy and took a scheduled formation to Chennai connected Friday afternoon.
