The North-South divide: The 'fiscal injustice' rhetoric is biased

It should not be forgotten that in the 1950s and 1960s, the North Indian states subsidised Southern and Western India as part of the cooperative model of nation-building

Karnataka Congress member of Parliament, D K Suresh's comment on budgetary allocations announced by the finance minister on February 1 speculated that southern states suffered fiscal injustice. He warned that South India could split into a "separate nation". The inherent biases in this argument have to be exposed, and the idea given a quick burial.

D K Suresh said, "The Centre is not properly giving the right share of GST and direct taxes to South Indian states. The South Indian states are facing injustice. The money collected from southern states is being given to North Indian states. If this continues,