Shortly after Governor R.N. Ravi walked out of the Assembly without delivering the customary address on Tuesday, the Lok Bhavan issued a press release detailing the reasons for his action.
A fact check of the claims in press release shows many reasons stated were wrong or the data was cherry-picked. The Lok Bhavan claimed that four years ago Tamil Nadu was the fourth largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) but “today is struggling to remain at the sixth”. This is factually wrong. According to latest data from the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, for FY26, the FDI equity inflow to Tamil Nadu stood at $3.5 billion for the April to September period, the third highest among States. In FY22, Tamil Nadu ranked fourth and a year earlier it had ranked sixth.
