CBN’s Speed, Temperatures Rise In Tamil Nadu Politics

The other day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for the Rs 15,000-crore AMCA defence hub in Puttaparthi.

The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) flight testing and integration complex is a key defence aerospace project linked to India’s fifth-generation stealth fighter programme. The previous government in Tamil Nadu wanted to bring the defence hub to Hosur in Tamil Nadu at any cost.

The then Chief Minister MK Stalin reportedly had also offered to provide 100 acres of land free of cost, as requested by the DRDO for the project, apart from the 3.5-km runway of Hosur airport.

DMK is after the newly formed TVK Government for letting the project go.

They are angry that Chandrababu Naidu is using his good offices in Delhi to get the projects of Tamil Nadu to Andhra Pradesh.

However, it is not fair to blame the new Chief Minister Vijay for this.

A Defense project or for that matter, any project can not moved to another state in just a week. Vijay had become the Chief Minister only a week ago.

The decision of shifting the project from Tamil Nadu to Andhra Pradesh can not happen overnight.

So, it should have been taken when Stalin was the Chief Minister.

It is interesting to note that South Korean footwear maker Hwaseung Enterprises, which had earlier signed an MoU with the TN government for a Rs 1,720-crore non-leather footwear manufacturing facility, but later shifted the proposed investment to Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh.

This was in 2025 when MK Stalin was the Chief Minister.

So, blaming Vijay’s administration from AMCA moving to Andhra Pradesh is just politics.