<h1>Tamil Nadu budget allocations: state demands include funding, tax share, NEET exemption, and protection of state autonomy.</h1> The chief minister contends the Union Budget provided 'zero' to Tamil Nadu and sets out specific fiscal and project demands - education funding, new railway projects, completion of Madurai AIIMS, a 50% tax share, and NEET exemption - framing the Budget failure as a denial of actionable state allocations. He advances a federalism critique that centralisation undermines state autonomy and warns against language-policy imposition under the three-language framework. He further argues NEET and similar centralised exam regimes threaten reservation-based social justice and seeks exemptions to preserve equitable educational access.