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India central govt fails to win over NCTC critics

PTI, New Delhi
An agreement still appeared to elude the Centre's proposal on the National Counter-Terrorism Centre with States ruled by non-Congress parties rejecting it as "not acceptable" and opposing it “tooth and nail", notwithstanding appeals by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram for a broad consensus.
A day-long meeting, convened by the Centre to bridge the differences with the States, especially a dozen non-Congress Chief Ministers who have opposed the NCTC, went on expected lines.
Even Congress ally National Conference voiced reservations over the NCTC in its present form saying it makes it as stringent as the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act.
Significantly, BJP leader and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said they would support the NCTC if their suggestions are incorporated and it is suitably amended.
'Not a state vs centre issue'
Making a strong pitch for the formation of the NCTC, the prime minister said its establishment is not a state versus centre issue but will work as a vehicle of country's combined efforts to curb terrorism.
Stressing that NCTC will supplement the counter-terrorism capabilities of the States and not supplant them, Manmohan asked the State governments to work with the Centre in dealing with terrorism.
In his speech, the Home Minister, the prime mover of the NCTC proposal, said terrorists do not recognise boundaries and the Centre and State
governments have to work together to make the country safe and secure.
UPA constituent and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee outrightly rejected the NCTC saying it was not required.
Banerjee said setting up of institutions like the NCTC with the proposed powers of arrest and seizure upsets the federal structure of the country and strongly urged the central government to withdraw order on its formation as it was “not acceptable" to the States.
Accusing the Centre of behaving like “Viceroys of yore”, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said consti-
tution of the NCTC is a conscious strategy to cast the Centre as an "omnipresent" ruler with States portrayed as dependent vassals.
Modi accused the Centre of changing the “well-defined and constitutionally mandated” boundaries of Centre-State relations and said there was a disturbing sequence of events in the recent past which revealed “centralists and autocratic mindset that militates against all canons of federalism".
Opposing the NCTC "tooth and nail”, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa accused the Centre of taking the country towards "autocracy" and demanded that a subcommittee of Chief Ministers be set up to go into the proposed body till when it should be kept in “abeyance".
Launching an all-round attack on the Home Ministry, she alleged that Tamil Nadu was being shown “utter contempt” by the Centre which did not even send a copy of the order setting up the NCTC.