Expressing concern over Tamil Nadu’s finances elaborated in the White Paper released by the TVK-led government, We The Leader movement founder K. Annamalai on Friday proposed a functional consultation group with academicians, economists and experts to find constructive ways to mitigate the crisis at hand.

“The TVK govt., therefore, has very little time at its disposal and must not treat this White Paper as an excuse for non-performance; instead, it should explore ways to repair the damage done,” Mr. Annamalai said in a social media post.

“In many ways, it serves as a post-mortem of the State’s fiscal mismanagement over the past five years, laying bare the extent of the deterioration and benchmarking Tamil Nadu’s key financial indicators against those of other similarly industrialised States,” he said.