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NCTC order affects Centre-state relation: Naidu
Seeking withdrawal of the Centre`s recent order on NCTC, TDP prez Chandrababu Naidu cautioned PM that it affected Centre-state relationship.
Naidu, former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, also suggested the Prime Minister to initiate debate with political parties and state governments along with a debate in the Parliament as the issue affected Centre-state relations.
Naidu today wrote this to Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh while joining Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, West
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister J Jaylalithaa`s stand on NCTC.
"The order undoubtedly, smacks of authoritarianism and
is against the spirit of co-operative federalism enunciated in
the Constitution," Naidu said in the letter which was released
here by Orissa CM`s Office.
Stating that the TDP had always stood for co-operative federalism, Naidu asked the prime minister to direct the Ministry of Home Affairs to rescind the order. "It is issued violating the federal spirit of the Constitution," he said.
The director of NCTC, specified as Designated
Authority under Section 2(e) of Unlawful Activities
(prevention) Act, 1967 and his offers can arrest and conduct
search without prior consultation with the concerned state
governments, he pointed out.
"They (NCTC officers) can have access to information,
documents, reports from all the civil authorities directly
from the functionaries of the state government. It is quite
inexplicable that such an important order, having ramification
over the Centre-state relations, has been issued without
consulting the state governments and political parties," Naidu
wrote in the letter.
PTI