BJP-ruled states getting step-motherly treatment: Modi

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi accused the Union govt of meting out step-motherly treatment to the BJP-ruled states.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi,in the eye of the storm over a photograph featuring him with his Bihar counterpart Nitish Kumar,accused the Union government of meting out step-motherly treatment to the BJP-ruled states.

In a resolution on Federal structure moved by him at the BJP National Executive Committee meeting,Modi charged the UPA government with flouting recommendations of the Sarkaria Commission on Centre-State relations.

He alleged the government was not consulting BJP-ruled states on appointment of Governors and Chief Justices of High Courts.

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“Even several bills adopted by the Gujarat assembly with two-thirds majority have been put into cold storage by the Governor or the Centre for the past six years,” Modi said.

“It is a deliberate attempt to weaken the federal fabric of the country,” he said.

The party National Executive,which adopted the resolution,authorised Modi to prepare a report on the issue in consultations with Chief Ministers of BJP-run states for an appropriate action,party spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy told a press conference.

Modi,during the course of a debate on the resolution,accused the Centre of adopting a discriminatory approach with regard to states ruled by the saffron party.

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He pointed out the erstwhile Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had always preferred consultations and followed the Sarkaria Commission’s recommendations before appointing Governors and Chief Justices of the states.

BJP stalwart L K Advani,in his brief intervention,said the erstwhile NDA government had always taken the Chief Ministers into confidence before appointing Governors.

The NDA regime had always maintained harmonious relations with the states,he said.

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