Government can disband the Union-State relations committee, but not its ideas and contribution, says M.K. Stalin

In a letter to Justice Kurian Joseph (centre), the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations’s chairman and K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty (left), its member, former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said the State government’s decision to disband the committee was unacceptable. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran

DMK president M.K. Stalin on Monday (November 9, 2026) said he was greatly disappointed by the disbanding of the High-Level Committee on Union-State Relations, which was expected to submit its final report by May 2027.

In a letter to Justice Kurian Joseph, the committee’s chairman and K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, its member, he said the State government’s decision to disband the committee was unacceptable, particularly when the first part of its report had triggered constructive debates across the country and the research for the second part was almost complete.