Click to play videoNew Delhi: Not part of the UPA at the Centre but rulers in their own respective states, three Chief Ministers from three different parties – Mayawati, Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar – made their apprehensions clear on the misuse of the new anti-terror law.
Modi took the lead calling the Centre's attempt to combat terror post-26/11 half-hearted and against the federal spirit.
“There is a constitutional mechanism to get someone booked under terror laws. But in this country whoever is in power takes a call and does his own thing,” Modi said.
The states are clearly worried. Their apprehension is that the new terror laws can be used by the Centre to encroach upon the right of the states in a federal polity.
Another NDA ally and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wants the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to be barred from investigating non-terror cases without permission from the state governments.
UP Chief Minister Mayawati did not attend the meet, but wrote to the Centre questioning recent CRPC amendments which do not warrant arrest in cases which carry punishment less than seven years.
Even Left-ruled states have raised objections to some provisions of the NIA. However, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said, “It is a first attempt and it’s a good beginning.”
Political affiliation is going to have its effect at the grassroots level. So state cooperation will depend on whether the state is government by an NDA or a UPA regime.
(With inputs from Meetu Jain)
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