Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday accused the Centre of deliberately blocking Metro rail projects for Coimbatore and Madurai as political retaliation, saying that the state will “fight and win”, in a strongly worded statement timed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Coimbatore .

Stalin said the Union government had denied Metro rail for “temple city Madurai” and for “South India’s Manchester, Coimbatore,” on flimsy grounds, adding that the decision reflected a deeper hostility toward a state that would “never accept such a distortion of federal principles”.

“A government exists to serve people without bias. Yet the Union BJP (government) treats Tamil Nadu ’s democratic choice as a reason to take revenge. Pushing such a political custom, in which BJP ruled

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