Chennai, Nov 19 (PTI) The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday said the Centre has rejected its proposed metro rail projects in Madurai and Coimbatore “on flimsy grounds,” as the issue snowballed into another DMK vs BJP face-off in the southern state where Assembly elections are due in about six months.

The parties sparred over the matter on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore for a farming summit, where he made an apparent political comment that “Bihar winds” had arrived in the southern state, referring to the NDA’s resounding victory in the just concluded Bihar Assembly polls.

While Chief Minister M K Stalin slammed the BJP over the “no Metro” issue and called the move as an “act of revenge” the saffron party said the Centre acted on technical grounds.

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