COIMBATORE: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday accused the DMK of curtailing the welfare schemes of the central government to prevent Prime Minister Narendra Modi from earning the goodwill of people in Tamil Nadu.

Addressing a meeting of party functionaries in Coimbatore, Sitharaman said the central government has been implementing schemes without discrimination, unlike the DMK, which is biased towards people in constituencies where it lost.

“In Tamil Nadu, protests, demonstrations, and black flag agitations have become a regular affair aimed at preventing the implementation of central government schemes. It (the DMK government) operates in such a way that the Prime Minister shouldn’t earn the people's goodwill. The DMK is spreading false propaganda that the central go

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