Chennai: Concerns over several Bills passed by the Tamil Nadu Assembly, including the one seeking exemption for the State from NEET, not getting the Union Government’s nod were raised in the Rajya Sabha by DMK member N R Elango.
Speaking on the motion to thank President Draupadi Murmu for her address to the Parliament, the member from Tamil Nadu said on Wednesday, ‘True federalism in real spirit and substance and not in ornamental form would be the seed for a vibrant democracy. Democracy has to be practiced and not to be preached.’
Delegation of power to the States should be real and intervention by the Union would be destructive to the Constitutional mandate of federalism, he said and referred to the NEET Bill and other Bills that had been kept in the cold storage for a long time. This was happening not just in Tamil Nadu but in Telangana and Kerala, he said.
Another affront to democracy was the naming of all schemes by the Union Government in Hindi he said and spoke about the neutralization of the corruption law by the present government in 2018.
