Leaders write to me, no one signs in Tamil: PM’s dig at Stalin amid language row

"Under the Modi government since 2014, we have provided funds for Tamil Nadu's development, three times more than the INDI alliance when it was in power. The DMK was a part of the INDI alliance at that time. Tamil Nadu's railway budget has also increased seven times. Some people have a habit of crying for no reason, they keep crying over it,” he said at a public meeting in Tamil Nadu.

The remark was a reference to chief minister MK Stalin's letters to PM Modi asking the central government to release education funds.

Stalin, in 2024, had also sent a 15-page memorandum to the prime minister, seeking central funding for Chennai’s metro rail project, release of education scheme funds and resolution of Sri Lankan navy’s detention of Tamil fishermen.