The current debate on bifurcation to make Tamil Nadu a ‘Kongu Nadu’ region is due to a clash of terminology after the DMK government addressed the Center as ‘Central Government’ in the spirit of constructive cooperation and state autonomy.
For the DMK, battling for state autonomy is the Centre’s way of keeping it under control. From the time of DMK’s first chief minister CN Annadurai to Kalaignar Karunanidhi, the party has stood in the way of several central governments that have tried to take away state rights, or take arbitrary decisions in violation of the spirit of cooperative federalism. have tried. .
After the Karunanidhi DMK, led by MK Stalin, was attacked on a daily basis against this particular tension: a timid state government of the AIADMK under an official Centre. From hydrocarbon extraction to medical entrance tests to 8-lane highways, the protest sentiment propagated by the DMK internalized the subject that the state should take a stronger voice.
In line with its pre-poll stance, the DMK government, after a landslide victory in the assembly elections, had put forward the idea that the appropriate term to refer to the central government was ‘central government’. In the Assembly on 24 June, Chief Minister Stalin defended the adoption of the term, giving constitutional backing to the use.
After an article in a Tamil newspaper speculating about plans to carve out the Kongu region (Western Belt of Tamil Nadu) into a separate area as a result of the DMK’s confrontational approach, the debate on social media intensified on a large scale. The controversy focuses on the DMK’s history of demanding a separate state (Dravida Nadu), and explains why the party brought up a post-election ‘central government’ debate.
Even as debate over division has intensified, and sentiments have intensified, a familiar sentiment is creeping in among political observers and health workers. The vast majority of the population has not been vaccinated, while several thousand people await their second dose against COVID-19. The vaccination graph of Tamil Nadu shows peaks and declines due to uncertain supply of vaccines. For example, in mid-June, there have been days when more than 30 districts did not have caps due to non-availability of vaccine. The plans for commercial production of vaccines at HLL Biotech Factory remain only on paper.
Health experts say they believe the division debate is being used to distract people from the larger issue of the state’s preparedness for an impending third wave.
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