Chennai, April 15 -- Tamil Nadu Congress President K Selvaperunthagai on Tuesday backed Chief Minister MK Stalin's decision to form a high-level committee to look into the rights and autonomy of the state with respect to the Centre.

Stalin's move came days after the Supreme Court pulled up the Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi for 'sitting' on bills passed by the state assembly.

Voicing his party's (Congress) support to the decision, Selvaperunthagai stated that this resolution was "need of the hour" and accused the BJP of "continuously attacking" the federal system.

"This resolution is a need of the hour because the BJP continuously attacks the federal system... So we have to approach the Supreme Court for everything... Union government is ...