Chennai: Hitting out at Dharmendra Pradhan for his criticism of the ruling DMK, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday strongly hit out at the Union Education Minister, alleging he spoke with “arrogance” considering himself a king and asked him to control his tongue.
The CM’s remarks came in the wake of the exchange between the DMK MPs and Pradhan in the Lok Sabha over the PM SHRI scheme and fund allocation to the southern state.
Pradhan had criticized the Tamil Nadu government for refusing to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) and doing a “U-turn” on the issue of “politics.”
“Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who thinks himself as king, speaking with arrogance should have control over his tongue,” MK Stalin wrote on X.
MK Stalin made it categorical that the Tamil Nadu government did not come forward to implement the Centre’s PM Shri scheme and when that is the case, he said nobody could persuade him further in this regard.
“Just answer if you could release the fund or not, which was collected from us and which is meant for the students of Tamil Nadu,” the chief minister said.
Referring to Pradhan’s letter to him that outlined Tamil Nadu’s rejection of the New Education Policy, 3-language policy and PM Shri MoU, Stalin said the DMK government functioned by respecting the views of the people unlike the BJP leaders, who were bound by “words from Nagpur”.
