Tamil Nadu, Oct. 17 -- Tamil Nadu Finance Minister, Thangam Thennarasu, slammed the Union Government for deliberately denying the state of its rightful share of funds. Calling it a "political vendetta", he vowed to continue protests to secure resources for development.

The FM highlighted that Tamil Nadu was entitled to Rs. 4,000 crores, but the Union Government released only Rs. 450 crores, meant for the Right to Education.

"The fund for education from the Union Government is for teachers' salary, Children's education and it's all known to the Union Government, but purposefully, the Union Government is refusing to release funds to Tamil Nadu," he said.

Furthermore, he underlines the concern of clean drinking water, stating that the dri...