Sunday, April 3, 2022

tamil nadu: Tamil Nadu democratised religion over 100 years ago…tough for radicalism: FM Palanivel Thiagarajan

Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan said aggressive Hindutva would be very difficult to take shape in a state like Tamil Nadu as it democratized religion a hundred years ago and its core value system would not be hampered by any kind of fundamentalism.

He also said that the DMK government, under Chief Minister MK Stalin, would try to attract investments to the state from across the world and also work to accommodate employers who move their businesses from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu due to the rising communal tension in Karnataka. want to transfer to.

Thiagarajan had said at a recent GST Council meeting that he had expressed concern about the “faulty implementation of the Goods and Services Tax and the Centre’s increasing control over institutions” that he said would have “serious consequences for the country”.

The Finance Minister said that Tamil Nadu is monitoring the developments in Karnataka as every threat has to be taken seriously. He said, “There is a huge interest (from IT companies wanting to diversify into Tamil Nadu), and we are already in the race. People with us are actively taking it up and our government is working on it. ”

He said that Tamil Nadu has witnessed 53 per cent growth in investments and to attract financial investors and corporates, the state government will organize events in different countries within the next six months. “If we invest Re 1 in capital investment, we want to mix it with external investment,” he said.

Stalin, who was in Delhi last week to meet PM Modi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, recently went to Dubai to meet business heads and according to a government statement, MoUs worth Rs 6,100 crore were signed. Which can create 14,000 jobs in Tamil Nadu. ,

Though the BJP is aggressively trying to expand its footprint in Tamil Nadu, Thiagarajan, who has come from a family associated with Dravidian politics for four generations, said the state is the biggest challenge for the expansion of Hindutva. “If Tamil Nadu turns to Hindutva, it will be the final nail for our secular democracy and so I don’t think it will ever happen. Tamil Nadu is the most pious state in the country and it is not because of Hindutva, but because we democratised. Is religion long ago.”

Originally published at Pen 18

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