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Chidambaram will clarify on anti-terror hub, says Farooq
Saturday February 18, 2012 06:11:17 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: National
Conference president and union Minister for New and Renewable
Energy Farooq Abdullah Saturday said that Home Minister
P.Chidambaram would soon clarify doubts of the chief ministers
opposing the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC).
After nearly a four-hour long meeting of his party leaders,
Abdullah said Chidambaram would be able to clear the air on the
NCTC but did not elaborate his party's stand on the issue.
A constituent of the United Progressive Allliance, the National
Conference is also a proponent of the autonomy of the states.
Seven chief ministers of non-Congress ruled states have come out
stoutly against the proposed anti-terror hub, terming it an
interference with the rights of the states and an onslaught on the
federal structure of the country.
On the State Accountability Commission's notice to the Jammu and
Kashmir government, including Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, on
political appointments and conferring of ministerial status on two
advisors and chairpersons of state corporations, Abdullah only
said: "Law will take its own course."
He also hinted that a final decision is pending on Education
Minister Peerzada Mohammad Sayeed of the Congress, divested of the
school education portfolio for allegedly influencing officials to
facilitate his son getting through the Class 10 examinations in
2009.
"At the moment, Congress president Sonia Gandhi is busy with the
elections in UP (Uttar Pradesh), hence a decision as to how to
deal with the issue of the concerned minister would be decided
once she is free from electioneering," said Abdullah, stirring
speculation that the minister's claim that his resignation had
been rejected is open to question.
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