While the ruling party of the state of Tamil Nadu ADMK has, on one hand, been welcoming and upholding the government's good governance that was recently revealed in the 'Governance Index' released by the Central government which ranked the state at first place, the state's opposition party, on Monday, cited that the top spot on the table is a reward by the Central government for the ADMK party that backed the BJP's controversial Citizenship Amendment Act.

The opposition party, which is one of the strongest critics of the CAA, stated that the Central BJP government has provided the ADMK government a top spot in the governance index after the ruling government had voted in favor of the bill in the Upper House of the Parliament that had let the bill through the lenient passage as the BJP lacks the halfway majority in Rajya Sabha.

One of the DMK leaders and state's former revenue minister Periasamy has said that the amended Citizenship Act is against Muslims and Sri Lankan Tamils and the ADMK had cleared such bill in the Parliament and for the unanimous support shown by the party, the BJP government has rewarded the state with the top spot in the list of 18 states in the index of 'Good Governance'. The reaction from the DMK leader has come a day after Tamil Nadu Revenue Minister Udhayakumar said that DMK president M K Stalin prefers to blame Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami rather than offering any constructive suggestions.

On Wednesday, The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, which functions under the Union Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions, had released the index of 'Good Governance' for the year of 2019 through which it was revealed that the state of Tamil Nadu tops in the country by having good governance while compared to the rest of the eighteen big states that were on the list.

The states like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh took the following rankings respectively behind Tamil Nadu while the states like Odisha, Bihar, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand have been trailing with the poor performances as these states were seen below the table. Addressing the launch of the Index, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, Jitendra Singh stated that the Index has been scientifically designed based on various parameters of the governance.