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.
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.
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