Chennai, February 18 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Wednesday proposed amendments to the Constitution to strengthen federalism at the Centre and state autonomy, calling for a "structural reset" of the country's federalism.
Presenting the first part of the Justice Kurian Joseph committee report on Centre-State relations in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, he said that federalism was about trust and autonomy.
"India's federalism needs a structural reset. If we wish, we can amend the constitution again. Meaningful federalism is not about control, but about trust, autonomy, and governance that responds to people's realities," said Stalin, the president of the ruling DMK.
In 1967, DMK founder and late Chief Minister C N Annadurai observed that the Union must indeed be strong enough to maintain the sovereignty and integrity of India.
His successor, the late M Karunanidhi, advanced this philosophy through the maxim, "Autonomy for States, and Federalism at the Centre" and in 1969, he established the first independent committee on Union-State Relations under Justice P V Rajamannar, he recalled.
Stalin said that the DMK follows the policy of autonomy in the states and federalism at the Centre.