India, Feb. 9 -- Poor-performing states of the country have inevitably ended up with a higher share in the Centre's devolution of tax revenues at the expense of better performers, such as Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said on Sunday, acknowledging that it is a good sign that the laggards are gradually getting their act together.

For the country to prosper, all its regions have to prosper, Naidu said in an interview with PTI Videos, adding that the states are allies, not enemies.

"Deliberately, they (the Centre) do not want to do any injustice. There are some parameters of backwardness, population -- all these things. South India has gone ahead with population control. Because of economic reforms, South India has tak...