Chennai, Nov. 7 -- Putting an end to its six-month-long procrastination on the continuation of the panel headed by former Supreme Court Judge Justice Kurian Joseph, studying Union-State relations, the Jospeh Vijay Government has scrapped it altogether, inviting condemnation from the principal opposition DMK and a section of legal luminaries.
The Tamil Nadu government announced its decision to disband the panel and entrust the task with the State Law Commission, in a Government Order (GO) late on Friday, on a specious reasoning that the panel was not a statutory body. But neither is the State law Commission.
Constituted in April 2025 by the previous DMK government of MK Stalin, it is the second panel to recommend suggestions on Union-State...