Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 1 (ANI): The 2026 Union Budget has brought about nice disappointment among the many individuals of Tamil Nadu with ‘no clear bulletins’ for key sectors, the finance minister of the poll-bound state, Thangam Thennarasu,, mentioned on Sunday.
Following the presentation of the Union Budget 2026-27 in Parliament at this time by Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Thennarasu took to social media to state, ‘The long-standing and bonafide calls for constantly raised by the Tamil individuals have as soon as once more been ignored.’
‘The 2026 Union Budget has brought about nice disappointment among the many individuals of Tamil Nadu. There have been no clear bulletins for key sectors similar to fundamental infrastructure growth, employment, schooling, healthcare, and industrial funding which can be important for the state’s progress. The long-standing and bonafide calls for constantly raised by the Tamil individuals have as soon as once more been ignored,’ Thennarasu’s put up learn.
The state’s finance minister mentioned that, regardless of Tamil Nadu’s important function in India’s general growth, it has not obtained its rightful share. ‘This finances stands as one which has fully disregarded the expectations of the Tamil individuals,’ Thennarasu mentioned.
The Union Budget 2026, tabled on Sunday (February 1, 2026), is the ninth consecutive finances offered by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman within the Parliament.
For the Budget presentation, Sitharaman, who hails from Tamil Nadu, wore a Kattam (striped) Kanjeevaram silk saree from the State, paired with a plain yellow full-sleeve shirt.
In her Budget speech, Sitharaman proposed that the Centre would assist Tamil Nadu in establishing a devoted rare-earth minerals hall. The corridors may even be arrange in three different states Odisha, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Sitharaman additionally introduced seven high-speed railway corridors in India which it described as ‘progress connectors’ to advertise environmentally sustainable passenger methods. These embody:. Of these two are in Tamil Nadu- the Chennai-Hyderabad and Chennai-Bengaluru corridors.
Incidentally forward of the announcement of the Union Budget, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin took to X to reiterate the state’s key calls for, together with the discharge of Rs 3,858 crore in schooling funds allegedly withheld by the Union authorities and approval for the Coimbatore and Madurai Metro Rail initiatives.
He had additional listed the demand of ‘Rs 3,112 crore for the Jal Jeevan Mission,’ which he mentioned that Tamil Nadu is implementing successfully, ‘new railway initiatives, and a 50% share of the Centre’s tax income for states, as advisable by the Finance Commission.’
Stalin additional pressured that these shouldn’t stay mere bulletins, citing the Madurai AIIMS for instance, and demanded that initiatives be applied inside stipulated timelines with correct budgetary allocation. (ANI)