Kanchipuram, June 26 -- Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her visit to Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu, participated in the centenary silver jubilee celebrations of SSKV Educational Institutions and the book release of Pennin Perunthakka Yaavula. Speaking to the reporters, Nirmala Sitharaman noted that the floor of the house is the appropriate platform for criticism and emphasised that the 'Opposition should speak.'

On Thursday, after the event, she defended political debates in legislative forums, stating, "Where else can political criticism be made if not in the Assembly? The Opposition should speak, and the ruling party should respond. There is nothing wrong in that."

Sitharaman further stressed that the Tamil Nadu governme...