Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday strongly hit out at Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, alleging he spoke with “arrogance” considering himself a king and asked him to control his tongue.

His remarks come over Pradhan’s remarks that the Tamil Nadu government was “dishonest” on the issue of implementing the PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) cheme. Stalin made it categorical that the Tamil Nadu government did not come forward to implement the Centre’s PM Shri scheme and when that is the case, he said nobody could persuade him further in this regard.