Vijay govt scraps TN's Justice Kurian Joseph panel on Union-State relations, invites condemnation from Oppn parties

Chennai, Nov 7 (UNI) Putting an end to its six-month-long procrastination on the continuation of the panel headed by former Supreme Court Judge Justice Kurian Joseph, studying Union-State relations, the Jospeh Vijay Government has scrapped it altogether, inviting condemnation from the principal opposition DMK and a section of legal luminaries. The Tamil Nadu government announced its decision to disband the panel and entrust the task with the State Law Commission, in a Government Order (GO) late on Friday, on a specious reasoning that the panel was not a statutory body. But neither is the State law Commission. Constituted in April…