The fiscal problems of Tamil Nadu need serious surgery and not band-aid treatment as hitherto. Herein lies a golden opportunity for Stalin -Thiagarajan to emulate P V Narasimha Rao – Dr Manmohan Singh who took bold to take a 180 degree turn thatliberated the Indian economy and set it on high growth path in 1991. With the plethora of election promises of 54 years of the DMK, including the recent one of over 300, it will not be easy to do an about-turn. Hopefully the panel of such renowned economists would convince Stalin on the need for fundamental structural reforms
