CORPORATE PRESS RELEASES (INDIA) news desk, February 18,2012
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/mamata-avoids-chidu-hm-says-security-duties-are-shared-217592.html
After plans for a national anti-terror body were snubbed by chief ministers of eight states, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said national and internal security was a shared responsibility of the states and the Centre.
Chidambaram said, ” The Centre has a responsibility to work with states to quell terror, any militancy or rebellion.”
n Kolkata to inaugurate a National Security Guards hub, the home minister did not comment on the opposition to the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in his speech.
UPA ally and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has expressed her opposition to the NCTC, was also conspicuous by her absence at the function.
Her name was also deleted from the programme brochure prepared by the state government.
Sources told CNN -IBN that the home ministry will stick to its plan to make the NCTC operational from 1 March despite opposition from the states.
States will be reassured that the federal structure will not be compromised with, the sources said.
Mamata, three chief ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh, Janata Dal-United’s Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Biju Janata Dal’s Naveen Patnaik in Orissa, AIADMK’s J Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, and Parkash Singh Badal in Punjab have opposed the move to set up the NCTC.
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