Chennai, Nov. 7 -- Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MMK) president and MLA MH Jawahirullah on Saturday strongly condemned the Tamil Nadu government's decision to disband the high-level committee headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph, calling it "a grave injustice to the rights of States."

In a press statement, he said the committee was constituted by the previous DMK government under then Chief Minister MK Stalin to safeguard States' rights and uphold the spirit of federalism.

Jawahirullah described the committee as a historic initiative, the first of its kind since the Rajamannar Committee of 1969, to examine Centre-State relations, including the distribution of powers, the limits of the Governor's authority, education, ...