00:00Party functionary from DMK himself was found to be indulging in the drug trafficking of more than 2,000 crore
00:09scam.
00:09The fiscal responsibility which the government of DMK should have followed has not been followed.
00:17These are serious issues, they will create a bad economy model for Tamina.
00:22Hi, hello, welcome to the One India Tamil.
00:25I am joined by Mr. Gopalakrishna Harwal, National Spokesperson of Bharat Janata Patry for Economic Affairs.
00:32Vanakum sir.
00:33Vanakum.
00:34I have lot of questions about Tamil Nadu election, but I would like to start with your department finance.
00:41Tamil Nadu dips may crash 10.7 lakh crore by 2027.
00:47What is your plan to reduce the dip if your alliance will win the election?
00:52The issue is the amount of debt that the Stalin government has projected in this budget 2026 is quite alarming.
01:04They themselves are saying that the debt for the Tamil Nadu will cross 10.71 lakh crores.
01:11It's a huge amount and it is almost more than 26% of state GDP.
01:18It is nearing the upper cap that has been prescribed by the Niti Aayog and it is very alarming.
01:26It is because I think that the expenditure has not been properly maintained.
01:34The fiscal responsibility which the government of DMK should have followed has not been followed.
01:41Continuously they are in just spending and not targeting for the welfare schemes of the people.
01:54Their expenditure on salaries, their expenditure on pension and the administrative expense that the state government budget has,
02:04has crossed 64% of the total expenditure, the deficit already has crossed 3% of the GSDP and it
02:15is expected to be around 1.21 lakh crores.
02:23It is expected to be crossing this limit and the thing is I think this limit will also cross because
02:34last year they had a debt of 1.24 lakh crores this fiscal deficit.
02:41So they have to manage their finances well, reduce their administrative expenses, find out new sources of revenue for the
02:52government and remove corruption.
02:55Ultimately the expenditure which they are doing it is not reaching to the common man properly because of corruption of
03:04DMK government, Stalin government.
03:06We want to efficiently maintain the welfare scheme so that they go to the right person without any leakages and
03:18corruption.
03:19Second important thing is they are saying that central government is not giving enough funds.
03:24It is not correct.
03:25In their own budget the share of union governments fund transfer to the state is more than 62,000 crores
03:36plus additionally the central government is giving 24,000 crores for one year for various special schemes.
03:46So it is more than 85,000 crores of funds that the center is giving it is alarming their interest
03:56outgo payment on this debt is 80,000 crores so then more than 60,000 crores is going to repayment
04:06so ultimately their finances are not properly managed high debt is a risky thing.
04:12It will lead to bankruptcy of the state if proper action is not taken and therefore I urge the people
04:20of Tamil Nadu to change this corrupt government, change this mismanagement of finances that is taking place under the DMK
04:29government.
04:30And we have released from the professional cell a detailed document about bad finances that the Tamil Nadu, white paper
04:39on the finances problem that the Tamil Nadu is facing.
04:45Okay, okay.
04:46You put more allegations on government but Tamil Nadu government says it signed MOUs more than 12,000,000 crores.
04:54But there is a criticism like it has little has turned into the real projects, if it is true why
05:03do you think that it is?
05:05No, ultimately Stalin is saying that we have signed an MOU of 12,000,000 crores and the actual figure
05:14on the ground breaking is not more than 8 or 9 percent.
05:18Okay.
05:19And this is very serious, the industry like semiconductor which are the upcoming industries which had planned to establish their
05:29unit in Tamil Nadu, they have moved to Gujarat, same way Google has said that they will be implementing AI
05:42centre in Tamil Nadu, it has moved to Andhra Pradesh.
05:45So, they have lost many opportunities, more than 15 lakh crores opportunities of investment which could have come to Tamil
05:54Nadu because of their mismanagement, it is not fructifying.
05:59Even 15,000 MSME units have closed down during this period.
06:06So, they have to answer how they will create ease of living, ease of doing business, if they don't have
06:13capital expenditure, budget, they don't create infrastructure, how the infrastructure will improve, how there will be demand in the economy.
06:23They are not answering this.
06:25Okay.
06:25They are losing continuously employment opportunities.
06:30Youth is finding that if economy is not strengthened, they will not have opportunities for future for employment.
06:38Okay.
06:38So, it is an important issue that economic management and proper welfare schemes are balanced together.
06:48Even their public sector undertakings like Tamil Nadu electricity distribution company is under heavy debt, it is resorting to off
06:58budget borrowing and the transport company public sector, state and public sector undertaking in the transport sector has not been
07:09able to pay provident fund of about 28,000 employees for last 25 months.
07:16So, these are serious issues, they will create a bad economy model for Tamil Nadu.
07:22Okay.
07:24If you have the power, how will you ensure the investment, it actually work to the ground?
07:33No, ultimately if you look into other states, like Uttar Pradesh is progressing, now Madhapadesh is developing, the state government
07:42have to focus on implementation of the government.
07:45MOUs at the ground level.
07:48Okay.
07:48And they should have a hand holding for the industries.
07:51There should be control on the corruption of the party office bearers.
07:59DMK everybody is known to be highly corrupt.
08:04Their staff, their employees are not working efficiently.
08:10So, you have to ensure this, you have to go for fiscal responsibility, you have to manage your expenditures, administrative
08:18costs, you have to generate more resources which can create better fiscal responsibilities for the government.
08:28So, we will ensure, we will ensure, we have done, at the central level, if you look into macroeconomic
08:33parameters, we have very high GDP growth rate, we have strong reserves, our inflation is under
08:43control.
08:44So, Stalin is saying that, I want to achieve a $1 trillion GDP for Tamil Nadu by 2030.
08:54For achieving that, he needs a nominal GDP growth rate of 16%.
09:00Tamil Nadu is nowhere near that.
09:02And they are not even taking care of the drug menace.
09:06The young people from the Tamil Nadu, children of our families, etc. are getting this menace
09:14and are losing hope for the future.
09:17The suicide rate is second highest for Tamil Nadu across different states.
09:23Women are not finding it safe, even cases of POSCO has increased manifold.
09:32And even SCST, they are also not feeling comfortable because the National Crime Report Bureau, NCRB report
09:44says that about 47% of detainees which are in jail are from SC community.
09:54When the population is 20% and 47% of people in jail are belonging to SC community.
10:03So SCs are not safe, women are not safe, our children are feeling the menace of drugs.
10:10Tamil Nadu has a long coastal line of more than 1000 km.
10:17Huge drug trafficking is taking place.
10:21Jafar Siddik, party functionary from DMK himself was found to be indulging in the drug trafficking
10:32of more than 2000 crore scam.
10:35So if proper action is not taken, if conviction rate of people, those who are involved into
10:44drug trafficking is not properly managed, there is every chance that if this DMK government
10:53is not thrown off, Tamil Nadu may become the drug capital state for ETI.
11:01Okay.
11:02You told about drug related crimes.
11:06Over 63,000 drug related crimes have been filed here.
11:13Is this good policing or big issues?
11:16If it is big issue, what is your plan to reduce the drug related crimes?
11:21One thing is the way we have controlled the Naxal problem, you have to seal the border, work
11:28with the central investigation agencies for controlling the menace, stop your own party
11:36and leaders of DMK to get involved into this stuff, create awareness and ultimately the conviction
11:47is important.
11:48You said more than 63,000 cases have been filed but the conviction rate is very low, less than 20%.
11:57So ultimately you are not convicting people, they are going scot-free after putting some time in the jail
12:05or just a police station and they again go into drug peddling.
12:10So that is the issue.
12:12We have created a strong law and order mechanism in many states.
12:19Where the law and order was an issue, we have to control the coastal line, we have to create awareness
12:27awareness among the people, the synthetic drugs have found their place in Tamil Nadu, ganja is being supplied
12:35to the young people, even at the school door steps, easily, freely drugs are available for young children.
12:45They don't know, they have to be created and regulated and controlled, that is completely failure
12:52because they don't have the will to control this.
12:58There are about 3.5 lakh vacant government jobs.
13:02What is your plan to fill them and what is your immediate plan to youngster's employment in Tamil Nadu?
13:08One thing is the government jobs which are vacant, as is being done at the centre and different states,
13:15the same way we should fill those vacant government jobs and create proper reservation policy also
13:25for those people who need support and then only it can be filled properly.
13:32Fast tracking filling of these jobs is important and economic development is important.
13:39Without economic growth, the employment generation is not possible.
13:45You have to develop fisheries, you have to develop marine industries.
13:50You can, as we do in some states, prepare defence industries, renewable energy industries, automobile industries.
14:02All these industries have to be established.
14:05In this budget 2026, in the central, many schemes have been announced.
14:11Setting up support, central government is giving support to set up sunrise industries like renewable energy,
14:19setting up data centres, setting up heritage centres, developing tourism, creating infrastructure.
14:26So centre has so many schemes, they can align their projects and policies to the centre scheme
14:34and get the benefit of those particular schemes.
14:36Huge fund has been allocated.
14:38Lot of custom and import duty benefits are being given by the centre.
14:43So state should come forward and take benefit.
14:45They grow its economy, strengthen its budget fiscal responsibilities, attract foreign investments,
14:54domestic investment, create an environment of ecosystem where MSME can function freely without any compliance burden
15:03and corruption burden.
15:04So that way, young people will get employment if economy grows, more opportunities come.
15:10Can you please explain, what does double engine government offer that others can do?
15:17No, I think state government, it is not only the question that there has to be aligned government in centre
15:27state,
15:28but state government has to be careful about its policies.
15:35The Stalin government and the DMK government is completely not focusing on what is required for the state
15:43and their focus is not on law and order, their focus is not on controlling drug management,
15:51their focus is not on economic fiscal responsibility, aligning their policies and programmes to the centre.
16:00They are only focus is when the deputy CM says that he wants to eradicate Sanatandar.
16:09They want to create religious divide.
16:12They want to create kinds of language divide.
16:16The strong culture that Tamil Nadu has since long, it has a history of great kings like Raj Rajachola.
16:26They had built more than one lakh temples in Tamil Nadu.
16:30What is the status of those temples?
16:33They are heritage assets of the country.
16:39They are not being preserved.
16:42Issues like Jalakutte, they stand on them, Deep Utsav,
16:49even various religious festivals are not being properly created.
16:56They want to eradicate Sanatandar.
16:58They don't want to preserve the culture,
17:01strong religious and cultural heritage of Tamil Nadu
17:05and propel it further for the benefit of the people.
17:08That's what is required.
17:11You know, in Tamil Nadu, in this selection, there were four corner fights.
17:16The new face Vijay came.
17:18He will attract the youngsters and voters.
17:22Why should they choose NDA instead of Vijay?
17:28I think if you talk about some film actor, his only background is film industry.
17:38But for running a government, you need a lot of organizational skill, experience.
17:47Then resources are also required.
17:51Resources can be, organizational strength is there.
17:55People who can, there is an ideology, there is a philosophy,
18:00there is a clear roadmap on achieving.
18:02That is not there.
18:04You need a state, Tamil Nadu is one of the large state of the country.
18:11It has a good history of propelling India's growth and development.
18:18It has strong culture, tradition, language, art, architecture.
18:24So, it has to have an industrialization more rigorously.
18:32That vision is required.
18:34That strength of leadership is required.
18:37Youth requires employment.
18:40Youth requires financial resources for setting up their industry, etc.
18:47So, that vision is, I think, is only there in NDA.
18:50Under the alliance of NDA, AI, ADMK and BJP and other alliance,
18:58will only be able to give Tamil Nadu its due place in India's growth strategy.
19:07Yes, sir.
19:08The final question is, the BJP leaders, using the word, double-engine circa.
19:14What is the benefits of Tamil peoples, if they choose anti-aligns, the double-engine circa?
19:21I told you, it is not only the question of double-engine, it is the state government aligning its programs
19:29and policies,
19:30and its welfare schemes with the central schemes.
19:34Okay.
19:35If any government aligns its policies and programs with the center,
19:40taking benefit of the programs and schemes which the center announces, the state progress.
19:45Okay.
19:46That is there.
19:46You have to align.
19:47And they are at loggerheads with the center, fighting the center, putting the blame on center,
19:54and not taking care of their own finances.
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