Bengaluru, March 3 -- In a politically significant move that could reshape the national federal discourse, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has formally backed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's initiative to review Centre-State relations and called for a collective front of states to "right-size" the union government within the framework of the Constitution.
Responding to Stalin's letter dated February 20, forwarding Part I of the report of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, Siddaramaiah said the exercise represents a thoughtful and timely constitutional intervention. His reply, issued from Vidhana Soudha on March 2, underscores Karnataka's alignment with Tamil Nadu on what he described as the need for a principled...