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NK Singh’s sixer
You must give it to Fifteenth Finance Commission Chairperson NK Singh for his wit and his knack to come up with right analogy.
When
BusinessLine recently quizzed him on some of his recommendations not being accepted and acted upon swiftly by the Centre, Singh quipped.
“I have no great doubts that these will go through (Centre’s approval) as we go along.
“Unlike a Budget, we are not a one day match or much less a T20 match. We are a regular 5-day match and we (as Finance Commission) give five-year awards and therefore we need to see how the fiscal situation begins to play itself out”.
BJP to contest in 20 seats in Tamil Nadu Assembly polls
March 06, 2021
AIADMK and BJP finalise seat sharing agreement The AIADMK has allotted 20 Assembly constituencies and the Kanyakumari parliamentary constituency to the BJP for the Assembly elections and the by-election respectively, a joint statement from the two parties said. Both elections will be held simultaneously on April 6.
After several rounds of talks, the seat sharing deal was signed late on Friday night by AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam, joint coordinator Edappadi K Palaniswami and BJP general secretary and TN in-charge CT Ravi and State BJP president L Murugan.
The AIADMK led alliance has already allotted 23 seats to the Pattalli Makkal Katchi. Hectic parleys are going on to rope in the DMDK to be part of the alliance.