Tamil Nadu govt opposes cancellation of Haj subsidy 
Opposing the cancellation of the Haj subsidy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E Palaniswami has said his government would ask the central government to reconsider its decision. Expressing similar views, DMK working President MK Stalin termed the scrapping "regressive" and "condemnable". "The efforts by BJP to alter our nation's trajectory away from its secular ideals is insidious," Stalin added. 