Thread by @annamalai_k

The word ‘Ondriya Arasu’ is being propagated & cheered by the new @arivalayam govt. It’s time to reflect how India & our state have evolved over a point of time

India today comprises 29 States & 7 U T’s. However, the political map of India has been changed a couple of times
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https://twitter.com/mkstalin/status/1407618662182187017

Boundaries were redrawn at several stages, new states created on linguistic lines, agitations & for administrative conveniences over the last 74 years as ‘India is an indestructible union of destructible states’.

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The United States of America was formed as a union of states, one by one, under a very different circumstances starting from 1776. Nationalists – most of them war veterans – organized in every state and convinced Congress to call the Philadelphia Convention in 1787

The delegates from every state wrote a new Constitution that created a much more powerful and efficient central government! From Dec 16, 1977 each state in US was asked to ratify Articles of Confederation & it went on till March 1, 1981. Till then USA didn’t come to existence.

India is far different with a provincial parliament created for drafting the constitution in 1946, all existing Part A, B, C & D states came into existence on the appointed day of Aug 15, 1947. Later it took 3+ years for our rights in the form of a constitution to come into shape

During this time we fought a war with Pakistan to defend our territory, put down secession in some parts of India, made the smooth transition from a British controlled region to an independent country. All states on the day of independence become Bharat as in Art 1.

Later, the next major changes in the form of States Organization Act 1956 brought into effect the concept of linguistic states. Madras province (in which the existing TN was a part) gave away its territories for the formation of new areas including Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka etc.

In 1967, the new state government changed the name of this state from the existing name Madras state to Tamil Nadu. Officially the name Tamil Nadu came into existence then. Later the state capital, Madras was renamed as Chennai in honour of the Telugu ruler Chennappa in 1996.

One can clearly understand TN that is now is far different from the province that was in Aug 15th, 1947. The union is an indestructible part but at the same time the states enjoy clearly constitutional powers as mentioned in the state list & shared powers under concurrent list.

Let @arivalayam not write a new history for the state. A party can speak for the state - no doubt about that - but not at the cost of glorifying a false narrative. Tamils are unique and as our Hon PM Shri @narendramodi Ji had mentioned, ours is the oldest language in the world.

Let the new govt not play with fire by playing with words. When the word central govt was mentioned in their previous DMK’s rule (2006-11) & when they were in power in the central government form 2004 to 2014 as part of UPA, why do they have to resort to the word ‘Ondriya’ now.

Is it because they are hollow in their developmental agenda or to hide their inefficiency in controlling the 2nd wave of COVID or the very poor vaccination in the state?. I’ll leave you to ponder & to find the reason behind their new drama
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