Venkaiah Naidu at Tamil Nadu Secretariat

Chennai, May 16: The Union minister Venkaiah Naidu surprised the TN government by visiting Secretariat of Tamil Nadu and met the CM Edapati Palaniswamy had several discussions with them here on Sunday.

A day later Naidu made an unprecedented move by convening a review meeting with the government at the Secretariat, where ministers P Thangamani and M C Sampath signed MoUs with the Centre for joint venture projects.

"The Centre is extending whatever support that is required by the state," Thangamani said after a session with Union road transport, highways and ship-ping minister Nitin Gadkari, where it was decide that the state would get a captive jetty in V O Chidambaranar Port to cater to its coal requirements for its thermal units.



In the last week, rural electrification corporation officers flew down to Chennai to sign an memorandum of understanding to provide financial assistance of Rs 85,000 crore for power projects.

However, Venkaiah conveyed that in no uncertain terms that the Centre's cooperation would depend on the "performance" of the state.