Consult minorities on NCTC: Sikh group
Sunday February 26, 2012 09:03:01 PM,
IANS
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Amritsar: After
objections raised by chief ministers of some states against the
proposed anti-terror hub, a Sikh organisation Sunday demanded that
minorities and civil liberty organizations also be consulted
before the new body is set up.
In a letter to Home Minister P. Chidambram, radical Sikh
organisation Dal Khalsa said that the proposal to set up the
National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) as a superior
organization of security and intelligence bodies was fraught with
danger.
Dal Khalsa political secretary Kanwarpal Singh said that the NCTC
could be "used to stifle the voice of those who question" the
central government.
The letter stated that there were a string of security and
intelligence agencies and having another one above them was not
warranted.
"Instead of going for the creation of a new 'anti-terror super
body', the UPA government should evolve methodologies for peaceful
conflict resolution thereby removing the very cause for violence
as well as making the existing security and intelligence agencies
accountable to people and the Parliament," it said.
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