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UPA penalizing non-Congress states:
Jayalalithaa
Saturday October 22, 2011 06:02:29 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Saturday hit out at the
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government accusing it of
penalizing non-Congress-ruled states and said people living in
those states were as much citizens of India as those in
Congress-ruled states.
"The central government seems to be hell-bent on penalizing
non-Congress governments. This government at the centre does not
seem to understand that the people living in the states under
non-congress governments are as much citizens of India as those in
the states where the Congress party is in power," Jayalalithaa
said at the 56th National Development Council (NDC) meeting held
here.
"I am not sure that the government of India recognizes the states
as partners, leave alone equal partners," she said.
"No response" is the customary response of the centre to all
requests made by Tamil Nadu, she said.
Jayalalithaa charged the centre with reducing these states to the
level of "glorified municipal corporations".
Funds for the central government's various social programmes
should be routed through the state government instead of giving
them directly to the implementation agencies, she said.
"I am afraid that no useful purpose is going to be served by
convening this National Development Council Meeting," Jayalalithaa
said.
Several measures proposed by the UPA like the Prevention of
Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations)
Bill, 2011 are "fascist and anti-democratic in nature",
Jayalalithaa said.
"Even attacks on fishermen belonging to Tamil Nadu in the Palk Bay
by Sri Lanka are not looked upon as acts of aggression against
India. This issue is merely looked upon as a minor problem
concerning Tamil Nadu alone," Jayalalithaa charged.
Jayalalithaa called for introspection on the failures to achieve
the 11th plan targets before embarking on to the 12th one.
She said firm macro-economic management has to be combined with
adroit and innovative strategies to ensure that the trend reaches
its logical conclusion.
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