Each one of the southern States has its strengths, and it is now getting into a dangerous threshold of “Southern States together”, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman here on Wednesday.
Participating in an interaction, she said, ‘‘Each southern State has its strengths, and it’s also now getting into that very dangerous threshold of ‘southern States together’,” she said, lambasting Congress MP D.K. Suresh’s recent statement on South India as a “separate nation” during a discussion on devolution of taxes.
The Bengaluru Rural MP had earlier said the southern States would be forced to demand a separate nation if the “injustice” in the release of central grants was not addressed.
