A day after Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi reportedly took an indirect jibe at CM Stalin's foreign visit, the state Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu said that in the attempt to criticise CM Governor has criticised PM Modi. Thennarasu also told that Governor to refrain from making political statements by using the office of Raj Bhavan.
On Tuesday, Minister Thangam Thennarasu, as per PTI said, Ravi was belittling the foreign visit of Stalin who was striving to improve the economy of the state by attracting foreign investments.
"I think by attempting to criticise our chief minister the Governor has fired a missile at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as chief minister of Gujarat visited China in 2011 to attract investment for this state," Thennarasu said.
The Minister also asked by undermining Tamil Nadu CM's overseas visit would Governor also accept that Modi's visits to China, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia were similar.
The Minister said that over Rs 3,000 crore investment had been committed to the state during the CM's foreign visit.
Earlier, Tamil Nadu Governor addressing vice-chancellors of state and private universities of Tamil Nadu at Raj Bhavan said, "An environment has to be created to attract investors. Investors will not come just because we ask them or we go and have a talk. They are hard bargainers. In our country, there are many states which are doing it."
"We have to create an ecosystem for global giants for which the essential element is to create competent, appropriately skilled human resources only then we will avail ourselves of the advantage of this opportunity," Ravi said, as per the report.
Tamil Nadu CM also criticised Governor for his remark. Stalin said, “He (Governor) did not accept the Dravidian model of governance and hence made criticisms against the government to confuse people.”
"People will not bother about it at all. People have understood everything clearly. Let him make such criticism continuously," the Chief Minister said.