Tamil Nadu’s move to form a high-level committee on centre-state relations headed by former Supreme Court judge Kurian Joseph is a resolute move aimed at consolidating its legacy as a standard bearer for state autonomy. Having won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court against discretionary exercise of powers by state governors, the DMK government has doubled down and ordered a fundamental review of Union and state powers that will have salience in a fast-growing market economy.

The south clearly has a better record of economic growth and social development, but Tamil Nadu nurses the grievance that it suffers discrimination in fiscal transfers for ideological reasons. For the Narendra Modi-led NDA........

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