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Gujarat may restrict foreign origin people from holding civic post
Ahmedabad, Nov 12: In the backdrop of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi`s repeated attacks on Congress President Sonia Gandhi`s Italian origin in poll campaign, his government today said it is contemplating changes in the law to restrict people of `foreign origin` from holding any post in the local self-governing body.
Ahmedabad, Nov 12: In the backdrop of Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi's repeated attacks on Congress
President Sonia Gandhi's Italian origin in poll campaign, his
government today said it is contemplating changes in the law
to restrict people of `foreign origin' from holding any post
in the local self-governing body.
"A three-member committee headed by Law Minister Ashok
Bhatt has been constituted to look into the legalities and
other aspects for amendments in the law," Gujarat government
spokesman and Health Minister I K Jadeja told reporters after
the weekly cabinet meeting here today.
The proposed provisions would restrict a person with
`foreign origin' from holding any post in the Gram Panchayat,
Taluka Panchayat, District Panchayat, Municipalities and
Municipal Corporations even if he or she has `Indian
Citizenship', he said.
These amendments have been contemplated following
"popular" demand that "it is quintessential that a person with
Indian origin, who is well versed with the local problems,
public sentiments, deep knowledge of culture and established
traditions, holds the top post in civic bodies at the grass
root levels," Jadeja claimed.
"Considering these demands, it is necessary that such
provisions are made which would enable only a person born in
India, who can solve people's problems by putting them into
proper perspective and understand their sentiments," he said.
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