<h1>Conditional central funding used to press states on language policy, alleged coercion of state education autonomy follows.</h1> Alleged conditionality of central grants on state education policy: a parliamentarian asserts the Union is withholding education-sector funds to pressure Tamil Nadu into adopting the three-language policy under the National Education Policy, thereby exerting fiscal coercion over the state's two-language education stance. The MP further criticised central taxation and enforcement practices as burdensome to business and alleged that electoral bond mechanisms enabled politically timed enforcement followed by opaque political funding, challenging the government's development claims and linking fiscal and regulatory measures to governance concerns.