Talking to reporters here, he said the Centre was "adopting step motherly approach" in granting funds to Puducherry and said "it was part of negative stand taken by the NDA government towards opposition ruled states."
He also said that during a recent meeting with the Union Finance Minister he had stressed the need for meeting fiscal requirements totalling Rs 6,262 crores of the territorial government to tide over its commitments.
On inclusion of Puducherry as constituent of Central Finance Commission, he alleged that though the Centre had promised to include the Union Territory as a constituent of the Commission, 'nothing' had been done so far.
"If included, the territorial government would get higher allocation of grants for its developmental programmes," he claimed.
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