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Chennai: In the first two years of the government, he performed well as a minister of finance and was a force behind many reformsthis is how Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin showed his appreciation for state minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) during a two-day technology and innovation summit in Chennai on 23 February this year...
This is the same minister who was said to have fallen out of favour with the party leadership and stripped of his finance portfolio in the wake of a controversy surrounding an audiotape alleged to be PTRs, released by state Bharatiya Janata Party chief K..
According to DMK leaders and analysts, PTR has certain unique advantages that other senior party leaders lack, such as bringing in new ideas and reforms in the finance sector to stabilise the economy, apart from countering the BJP on social media..
Active on social media, PTR is known for giving ferocious responses to BJP leaders, and has previously also called Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman anti-federal and accused her of accumulating Tamil Nadus rightful share of funds at the Centre...
Had he not expanded the base of the DMKs IT wing across the state, bringing in more youth, we would not have been able to counter the BJP netas who make frivolous, yet damaging, comments with the help of their war room, says the leader, adding that PTR was also instrumental in bringing young blood into the party...
