<h1>Chief minister urges nationwide panels and constitutional amendments to strengthen state autonomy, halt fiscal centralisation and gubernatorial interference</h1> A state chief minister urged all states to form committees on centre-state relations and to press for constitutional amendments to strengthen state autonomy and federalism, alleging the central government withholds funds disproportionate to the state's tax contribution and interferes via gubernatorial and administrative actions. The state has constituted a high-level panel, including a retired senior judge, to recommend legal and constitutional measures to prevent unilateral downgrading of state status to union territory and to secure consultative appointment of governors and independent financial commissions. The plea invokes earlier commission findings on centralization and seeks statutory or constitutional reforms to rebalance fiscal and administrative powers.