Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister MK Stalin Wednesday accused the Central government of denying Metro rail services to Madurai and Coimbatore on “flimsy grounds”.

Terming it a “revenge” against the Tamil Nadu ’s democratic choice to elect an Opposition-party government, he said, “Pushing such a political custom, in which BJP ruled states get Metros for smaller Tier II cities while opposition ruled States are deprived, is a disgraceful approach. Tamil Nadu, the land of self respect, will never accept such a distortion of federal principles.”

“The Union BJP government has denied Metro Rail for ‘Temple City’ Madurai and for ‘South India’s Manchester’, Coimbatore, on flimsy grounds,” Stalin wrote on X, adding, “They attempted to stall the # Chenna

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