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Speaking at the Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security in New Delhi, BJP leader and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said, "By setting up the National Investigation Agency, the Central government now obviously wants to take over upon itself the responsibility of fighting terror by sidetracking the states." He said the NIA has become a matter of "mazak" (joke) since it would take at least a month for the government to decide "which and what case to take up" once NIA starts functioning.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who belongs to JD-U, said consultations with states should have preceded enactment of the National Investigation Agency Act and other anti-terror laws. He wanted that NIA be barred from taking up any case not relating to terrorism without the consent of the state government.
"It appears the recent spurt in terrorist activities has led the Centre to rush through various legislations without adequate consultation with state governments," he said.
"The anti-terror measures taken by Union Government after the Mumbai attacks were encroachment on state's right and were against the federal structure of the country." He said that there are many lacunae in the NIA Act and "states could have also been involved in the decision process before enactment of the Act."
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what else can we expect from the opoosition.acha ho ya bura, inhe mazak bana na hi aata hai.
The citizens of the country want the politicians to speak in one voice. The likes of the powerful CM of Gujarat must understand this and that the wishes of the people is the supreme power from which they derive their strength. Politicians must understand that the people are fed up with their pettiness, particularly in this time of crisis. Better sense must prevail otherwise, post elections, it will be avery costly lesson
MODi I think you are becomming a laughing stock by giving comments like this. I think you donn't have an idea of how a Federal investigative agency will work. Any issue will be first investigated by the state police and once it is confirmed that the issue is a terrorist activity the federal agecy takes over the investigation. But over problem is that which ever party rules be it NDA or UPA they use the official machinary for politcal purpose and not for the nation.
Even though it will take 1 month for NIA to just look into the case being a candidate case,it still will have more teeth than local agency in terms of reach.People like Dawood and Hawala operators will not have a reach that will transcend the departments.There will be healthy compitition from agencies of states and center to solve the case.Since they are of national importance NIA related cases can also be looked upon by state agencies finally coordinating the results with NIA in chargesheet and further jurisprudence.The states are getting more incapable everyday to fight such criminals more becuase of coordination and to lesser extent the reach of such connected persons hiding in the society.
As usual, politics over national interest. It is obvious by the fact that only NDA CMs have reservations. They have say something for the sake of it. Shame on our leaders again.