Addressing vice-chancellors universities of Tamil Nadu, Governor RN Ravi said an environment has to be created to attract investors.
Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi. (Supplied)
The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday, 6 June, took strong exception to Governor RN Ravi’s indirect remark on Chief Minister MK Stalin’s overseas trip to attract investment to the state.
They asked him to refrain from using the office of the Raj Bhavan to make political statements.
Describing the Governor’s comment, that investors would not come merely because they were asked to or in talking with them, as a veiled attack, Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu claimed Ravi belittled the foreign visit of Stalin, who was striving to improve the economy of the state by attracting foreign investments.
“I think by attempting to criticise our chief minister, the Governor has fired a missile at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who as chief minister of Gujarat visited China in 2011 to attract investment for this state,” Thennarasu said.
Addressing vice-chancellors of state and private universities of Tamil Nadu at the Raj Bhavan in Udhagamandalam on 5 June, Governor RN Ravi said an environment had to be created to attract investors.
“Investors will not come just because we ask them or we go and have a talk. They are hard bargainers. In our country, there are many states which are doing it,” he said.
Haryana has a foreign direct investment equivalent to Tamil Nadu. “We have to create an ecosystem for global giants for which the essential element is to create competent, appropriately skilled human resources. Only then we will avail ourselves of the advantage of this opportunity,” Governor RN Ravi had said.
Speaking to reporters in Chennai, Thennarasu sought to know if Governor RN Ravi could undermine the Tamil Nadu chief minister’s overseas visits. Would he then accept that Modi’s visits to China, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia were similar?
Visits to foreign countries by any chief minister were only aimed at improving the state’s economy, he said and called upon the Governor to desist from using the office of the Raj Bhavan to make political statements.
Thennarasu, who had been the state industries minister, said the chief minister’s two-nation trip resulted in Tamil Nadu clinching investment proposals for over ₹3,000 crore.
Investment apart, Tamil Nadu has been faring better in several sectors, including education he said. He further wondered how Governor RN Ravi, being the chancellor of universities, could suppress facts on the significant milestones in the education sector.
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