Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J
Jayalalithaa walked out of the National Development Council meet after being
interrupted during her speech. At the NDC meet in the national capital, the
bell rang as Jayalalithaa completed the allotted time of 10 minutes for her
speech and she was asked to stop. Jayalalithaa said 10 minutes were not enough
for a Chief Minister to complete his or her speech and walked out of the meet.
She said to reporters that,
"I began my speech, as soon 10 minutes were
over, they rang the bell, I felt humiliated"
"I have attended many conferences before
convened by the PM, such a procedure has never been followed in the past"
She also accused the government of stifling the
voices of opposition states. "The plan document is so lengthy and
encompasses so many subjects that CMs can't express their views in 10 minutes.
Just to allot 10 minutes and humiliate, this is a move to stifle the voice of
opposition states"
"We, in Tamil Nadu, have been particularly hard
hit by the attitude of the Government of India. Every single legitimate request
of our State has been turned down or ignored and every initiative
stymied", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa told in NDC meet at Delhi
She said the Centre came out
with a “new method” of limiting the speeches of Chief Ministers to 10 minutes
which was not enough to articulate their views. Each Chief Minister was alloted
10 minutes and was forewarned. Ms. Jayalalithaa had come to Page 10 out of her
28-page speech when the bell rang. Ms. Jayalalithaa said she had come prepared
with several points to “enlighten the interest of Tamil Nadu and the interest
of the nation.” The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister immediately left for Chennai
cutting short her stay.
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Earlier, in her speech, Ms.
Jayalalithaa said she found that no reasonable and legitimate suggestion from
the states had been accepted and the “big brotherly and undemocratic approach
of superimposing on elected state governments the dubious policies, priorities
and programmes of a minority ruling coterie in Delhi has prevailed.” She said
that, we get the impression that the government at the Centre is indifferent
about reducing poverty...The Union Government, far from serving the common man,
is conspiring against him by hiking the prices of essential commodities and
inputs and appears more focused on facilitating the interests of foreign
investors.
She also added that, the
regime at the Centre, caught up in the daily squabbles of its constituents, in
merely trying to survive from day-to-day, has neither the time nor the
inclination to pay attention to the problems of the people of this country.
Ms. Jayalalithaa accused the
Centre of being “completely ineffective” in playing its constitutional role in
ensuring that the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal is duly
notified so that it can be implemented and the rights of Tamil Nadu as a lower
riparian state are protected.
The
central government has also failed in protecting the citizens of the country —
the fishermen belonging to Tamil Nadu — from attacks across the maritime
boundary.
She said even a simple
request from a state PSU for a Digital Addressable System (DAS) Licence for Chennai
City has not been granted on totally extraneous considerations and alleged that
the delay is intended to facilitate the switching over of subscribers to a
family-owned TV network, in a clear reference to Marans—owned network. The
deliberate non-issuance of DAS licence to the state government—owned Tamil Nadu
Arasu Cable TV Corporation is only to facilitate the business interests of a
particular family which forms part of the ruling coalition at the Centre.
A state’s
problem in 10 minutes - this is absolute nonsense. We are talking about plan
outlays worth thousands of crores here. And the state CM gets just 10 mins to
make his/her case? This should be discussed at length whatever time it takes ! Planning
commission seems to be operating in a "I give. you take" mode. India
is UNION OF STATES, without states there is no INDIA
10 நிமிட
நேரத்தில் என்ன விஷயத்தை வெளியிட முடியும். முதல்வர்கள் டெல்லி போவதற்கு 10 மணி நேரம்
ஆகும். 10 நாட்கள் இரவு பகலாக
உட்கார்ந்து புள்ளி விபரங்கள் தயார் செய்ய வேண்டும். வெறும் 10 நிமிடத்தில்
உங்கள் பேச்சை முடித்துகொள்ளுங்கள் என்றால், ‘மாண்புமிகு
தலைவர்’ அவர்களே
என்று கூறிவிட்டு உட்கார வேண்டியதுதான். இதற்கு எதற்கு முதலமைச்சர்கள் கூடும்
தேசிய அபிவிருத்தி கூட்டம். 35 முதல்வர்கள்
பேசுவதற்கு தலா 10 நிமிடமாம். குட்டி
யூனியன் பிரதேசங்கள் உள்ளன. அவைகளுக்கும் 10 நிமிடம். பெரிய மாநிலங்களான
தமிழ் நாடு போன்றவைகளுக்கும் அதே 10 நிமிடமா? என்ன
நியாயம். பழைய ராணுவ மந்திரி கிருஷ்ண மேனன் ஐ.நா. சபையில் 15 மணி நேரம்
தொடர்ந்து பேசியிருக்கிறார். 10 நிமிட நேரத்தில்
பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங் வாழ்க மற்றும் மந்த்ரிகள் வாழ்க என்று சொல்லி அமர வேண்டியதுதான்.
A similar walkout, 28 years ago
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa’s walkout from the National Development Council (NDC) meeting is
reminiscent of a similar protest staged by four non-Congress Chief Ministers 28
years ago. At that time, on July 12, 1984, the four Chief Ministers — N.T. Rama
Rao (Andhra Pradesh), Jyoti Basu (West Bengal), Ramakrishna Hegde (Karnataka)
and Nripen Chakraborty (Tripura) — were protesting against the dismissal of the
Farooq Abdullah government in Jammu
and Kashmir
There was an exchange of
words between Rama Rao and Indira Gandhi, who was Prime Minister and NDC
chairperson, preceded the walkout. As Rama Rao began reading a statement on
behalf of the four Chief Ministers, he was interrupted by the Prime Minister.
But Rao and the three other Chief Ministers insisted that he be allowed to
complete his statement. Indira Gandhi took the view that the NDC was not a
political forum and the meeting was meant to discuss the Seventh Five-Year
Plan. After the four Chief Ministers walked out, a resolution, adopted by the
Council condemned their action. It was moved by Kerala Chief Minister K.
Karunankaran and seconded by Panruti S. Ramachandran, who was then the
Electricity Minister of Tamil Nadu].
Though the two walkouts vary
in detail, there are some common features. Just as Ms. Jayalalithaa criticised
the Centre’s attitude towards non-Congress Chief Ministers and causing
“humiliation” to a Constitutional authority by not allowing her to speak beyond
10 minutes, Rama Rao, who led the walkout in 1984, too faulted the Union
government’s attitude. The Chief Minister said the spirit of Centre-State
relations had become a casualty of the Centre’s attitude towards non-Congress
governments. In particular, the Union government was displaying a
“step-motherly” attitude towards Andhra Pradesh. The Centre’s attitude, he
said, was insulting to the governments of non-Congress States which were voted
into office by the people.
Tamil Nadu demands in NDC:-
http://murugesansenthil.blogspot.in/2012/12/what-jayalalithaa-spokegave-in-ndc-meet.html
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