The charge was led by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa which found support from other chief ministers of BJP and opposition ruled states on the proposed central agency.
"Piecemeal approach with disjointed efforts will not lead us to the desired goal. Without comprehensively reviewing our past efforts and actions we would go on creating agencies and organisations and yet fail to achieve the purpose", Modi said during the conference.
Accusing the Centre of changing the "well-defined and constitutionally mandated" boundaries of Centre-state relations, he said there was a disturbing sequence of events in the recent past which revealed "centralist and autocratic mindset that militates against all canons of federalism."
Launching an all-round attack on the Home Ministry headed by her bete noire P Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa alleged that Tamil Nadu was being shown "utter contempt" by the Centre, which did not even send a copy of the order setting up the National Counter-Terrorism Centre.
Speaking at the Chief Ministers' conference chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here, the Chief Minister said the proposed NCTC needs a "total overhaul" and suggested setting up of a smaller sub-committee of Chief Ministers.
"The NCTC, as has now been notified, should be kept in abeyance, as already advocated by me in my letter to the Hon'ble Prime Minister earlier, till the sub-committee of Chief Ministers gives its report," Jayalalithaa said.
"As a matter of fact, any discussion on NCTC is infructuous as long as the notification of NCTC is in force," Jayalalithaa said. (More)
