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Jaya warns PM against setting up of NCTC through back door
Vishwa Mohan ,TNN | Dec 29, 2012, 05.55AM IST 
Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa on Friday cautioned PM Manmohan Singh against setting up of NCTC through back door. (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: A day after walking out of the NDC meet accusing the Centre of treating CMs as "school children", Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa on Friday cautioned PM Manmohan Singh against setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) through back door. The home ministry, which is the prime mover of the anti-terror body, however, maintained that it was not rushing through it, and would certainly take into account the states' concerns.
Summarily rejecting the concept of the NCTC having operational powers of arrest, search and seizure in terror-related cases anywhere in the country, Jayalalithaa wrote a letter to the PM questioning him the justification for renewed move to set up the central anti-terror body when several CMs were still opposed to it.
Though Jayalalithaa in her letter to the PM only reiterated her previous stand against the NCTC, the timing of flagging up the issue indicates upping the ante on her anti-Congress and anti-Centre stand.
Expanding on her Thursday's remarks after walking out of the NDC meet when she alleged that the Centre's "arrogance and intolerance" had grown to "exceedingly extreme limit", the TN chief minister said any move on the anti-terror body was "yet another instance of Centre falling in its own commitment to consult states before taking a decision on the NCTC".
She said, "It is akin to the treatment meted out to me at the NDC on Thursday". The AIADMK supremo referred to "reliable sources", while pointing out that the home ministry has again made a bid to set up the anti-terror body.
Officials in the home ministry said that there was no progress in this ever since Sushilkumar Shinde has become the home minister as he first wanted to consult all the CMs individually before giving his nod for its operationalization.
The ministry, which had issued NCTC's notification in February, put its operationalization on hold after almost all the non-Congress CMs objected to the anti-terror body in May. The CMs had said the central body with such powers will hurt the federal structure of the country. Some of the CMs had also objected to the move of keeping NCTC under the Intelligence Bureau (IB).
Later, the ministry had tried to push it by keeping the central anti-terror body out of the ambit of the IB in July. It also re-phrased certain 'words' used in the original notification regarding its powers (arrest, search and seizures) given to the body, clarifying that the mandate, including conduct of operations, would be used only when there is an urgency under extraordinary circumstances.
Jayalalithaa in her letter said that the action in the form of counter-terrorist operations was better left to the state police to perform. She emphasized that the present system of a Multi-Agency Centre (MAC) in Delhi interacting with the subsidiary MACs at the level of states was considered to be working well.
The TN CM suggested that a Rapid Action Counter-Terrorist Force should be created in every state to function under the nodal state agency with liberal central funds.................http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQ0gvMjAxMi8xMi8yOSNBcjAxNDAw&Mode=Gif&Locale=english-skin-custom
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