06-12-2008, 08:34 PM
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
A day after the Congress demanded that sedition charges be slapped on Narendra Modi over tax row, the Gujarat Chief Minister dared the Centre to act against him. He did not come out in the open, instead leaving the party leaders in Delhi to fight the media war on his behalf. " I challenge the Centre to book me under sedition charges," a party spokesman in Delhi quoted Modi as saying. Â
<b>Modi had said in Vadodara on Sunday that Gujarat gives Centre Rs 40,000 crore in taxes but hardly gets anything back. "Don't give us money and don't collect tax from us. Let us see how this arrangement works in one year," Modi had said.</b> Stung by his remarks, the Congress had accused him of trying to separate Gujarat from India.
Interestingly, the BJP stopped short of taking any direct stand on Modi's demand that created a row in the political circles. "We share his concerns as far as discrimination with NDA-ruled States is concerned," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, but avoided answering a question whether the BJP agreed with Modi's suggestion.
Former BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu said that Modi was just expressing his "agony" against the Centre's discrimination with the NDA-ruled states.
While the BJP preferred to play it safe, Modi reiterated his demand to the Centre of enter into such an agreement and compare the balance sheets of the two Governments after a year.
The party high command has apparently been taken by surprise with the demand of its Chief Minister who had been remaining away from media glare of late. Party sources say it was a conscious decision of the party leadership not to get into the tussle between Modi and the Union Government.
A section of the BJP feels Modi's "agony" was totally justified but there was no point joining the battle between the Centre and the State as it may also face such a demand from the Congress-ruled states after the BJP came to power at the Centre.Â
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Sardar gave nice slap to center. Cong should try to clooect money from its own state.
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
A day after the Congress demanded that sedition charges be slapped on Narendra Modi over tax row, the Gujarat Chief Minister dared the Centre to act against him. He did not come out in the open, instead leaving the party leaders in Delhi to fight the media war on his behalf. " I challenge the Centre to book me under sedition charges," a party spokesman in Delhi quoted Modi as saying. Â
<b>Modi had said in Vadodara on Sunday that Gujarat gives Centre Rs 40,000 crore in taxes but hardly gets anything back. "Don't give us money and don't collect tax from us. Let us see how this arrangement works in one year," Modi had said.</b> Stung by his remarks, the Congress had accused him of trying to separate Gujarat from India.
Interestingly, the BJP stopped short of taking any direct stand on Modi's demand that created a row in the political circles. "We share his concerns as far as discrimination with NDA-ruled States is concerned," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said, but avoided answering a question whether the BJP agreed with Modi's suggestion.
Former BJP chief M Venkaiah Naidu said that Modi was just expressing his "agony" against the Centre's discrimination with the NDA-ruled states.
While the BJP preferred to play it safe, Modi reiterated his demand to the Centre of enter into such an agreement and compare the balance sheets of the two Governments after a year.
The party high command has apparently been taken by surprise with the demand of its Chief Minister who had been remaining away from media glare of late. Party sources say it was a conscious decision of the party leadership not to get into the tussle between Modi and the Union Government.
A section of the BJP feels Modi's "agony" was totally justified but there was no point joining the battle between the Centre and the State as it may also face such a demand from the Congress-ruled states after the BJP came to power at the Centre.Â
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Sardar gave nice slap to center. Cong should try to clooect money from its own state.