Chennai, April 13 -- Taking up the gauntlet thrown at her by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin to place her Ministry's letter--asking the state government to discontinue incentive for paddy over and above the MSP--in public domain, union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday released it on the social media and charged the DMK leader with creating a fake narrative by engaging in misrepresentation and sensationalism to score political points and termed it as factually baseless, politically motivated and a deliberate distortion designed to mislead the TN farmers.
Joining issue with him and coming down heavily on Mr Stalin, she said this was not the conduct expected of a Chief Minister holding constitutional office ...