Earlier this month, the Bengaluru Rural MP Suresh said the southern states will be forced to demand for a separate nation if the alleged ‘injustice’ was not rectified.He had claimed that taxes collected from the south were being distributed to north India and that the former (southern states) was not getting the due share.”You have a responsible Member of Parliament (Suresh), brother of the Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, who says we will have a separate southern state. It cannot go to that extent. I’m sorry. I can’t be with that,” Sitharaman said.Explaining further, she said, “I’m coming from a southern state. I cannot wait a moment, stand next to anybody who says ‘we in the southern states then demand. It cannot be so. That is what I’m worried about.”
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