Skip to main content

Centre’s proposal to set up an apex counter-terror organisation

National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC), a brain-child of Home Minister P Chidambaram give rise to new episode the bone of contention emerging in federal structure in coalition era.Chief Ministers of non-Congress and BJP-ruled states and a UPA ally on Friday raised a protests against the Centre for being bossy.
The protest was initiated by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who wrote to his counterparts in West Bengal (Mamata Banerjee), Bihar (Nitish Kumar) and Tamil Nadu (J Jayalalitha) and to TDP chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu.Expressing concern that the NCTC would infringe on the federal rights of states, Banerjee had said: “It is difficult for the state government to accept such arbitrary exercise of power by the central government/central agency, which have a bearing on the rights and privilege of the states as enshrined in the Constitution of India”.
Next to write was Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa who said the proposed body suffered from ‘deficiencies’ and has provisions that tantamount to usurping the legitimate rights of the states.
“I share the concerns of other state Chief Ministers who have expressed reservations against the attitude of certain Ministries in the Government of India acting in a high handed manner without due consultation with the States,” she said in her letter to Singh.
Taking strong objections to certain provisions of the NCTC such as power to arrest, search and set up inter-State Intelligence Support teams, Jayalalithaa said they ‘smack of a tendency to abrogate power with no attendant responsibility.’
BJP Chief Ministers Narendra Modi (Gujarat), Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Madhya Pradesh) and Prem Kumar Dhumal (Himachal Pradesh) also joined the chorus of protest against the Centre’s move.
Modi, in his letter to the Prime Minister, said the notification constituting the NCTC is a clear violation of the provisions of federal structure and an attack on the rights of states.
Demanding annulling of the order with immediate effect, he said the order putting all the intelligence agencies under NCTC will adversely affect the rights given to the states for the maintenance of law and order.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Assembly Elections 2017  Uttar Pradesh  (403/403) Punjab  (117/117) Goa  (38/40) Party Lead Won Total SP+INC 38 28 66 BJP + 193 119 312 BSP 10 10 20 RLD 00 01 1 Others 03 01 4 Party Lead Won Total SAD+BJP 01 16 17 INC 04 74 78 AAP 00 20 20 BSP 0 0 0 Others 00 02 2 Party Lead Won Total BJP 02 12 14 INC 01 13 14 AAP 0 0 0 MGP + 00 03 3 Others 00 07 7 Uttarakhand  (70/70) Manipur  (60/60)   Party Lead Won Total INC 04 07 11 BJP 15 42 57 BSP 0 0 0 UKD 0 0 0 Others 01 01 2 Party Lead Won Total INC 09 16 25 BJP 06 18 24 AITC 0 01 1 NPF 01 03 4 Others 02 04 6  
Women Economic Forum – India in Kolkata presented by the JW Marriott Kolkata. December 10, 2016 Sagar Media Inc HEADLINES LEISURE POLITICS ENVIRONMENT ART & ENTERTAINMENT SPORTS ALL ARTICLES Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 Next update in about 22 hours Archives Women Economic Forum – India in Kolkata presented by the JW Marriott Kolkata. Shared by Sagar Media Inc enkaysagar.wordpress.com  – We have the pleasure to invite you to be our distinguished speaker at our regional Women Economic Forum – India in Kolkata presented by the JW Marriott Kolkata.  We would love to have you with us a… President Park’s impeachment approved Shared by Sagar Media Inc enkaysagar.wordpress.com  – President Park Geun-hye holds a meeting with Cabinet ministers at the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Dec. 9, 2016 South Korea’s parliament on Friday passed a motion to impeach Presid… Magnitude...
RB and Save the Children launch productsto reduce child deaths from diarrhoea 25 MAR 2015 Leave a comment by  newdelhisamachara   in  Uncategorized   Edit New Delhi. 25 March 2015 The global partnership between RB and Save the Children today launched a unique and ground-breaking programme to help eradicate child deaths from diarrhoea. The partnership unveiled two innovative new hygiene and sanitation products by RB (formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser) alongside Save the Children’s sustainable Stop Diarrhoea programme in India, Pakistan and Nigeria – aimed at preventing, controlling and treating the unnecessary killer. The combination of RB’s expertise in product development and research, and Save the Children’s experience of delivering life-saving work will help save thousands of young lives a year. Funded by RB, the Stop Diarrhoea programme, will for the first time fully implement the World Health Organisation and UNICEF 7-point plan to ensure c...