06-18-2004, 10:29 PM
<b>BJP criticises creation of super PMO</b> -pioneer
Agencies/ New Delhi
Criticising the attempts of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government to create a 'Super Prime Minister's Office' at Vigyan Bhavan, the BJP Friday said the whole effort had showed the real face of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was being projected as an ''icon of sacrifice'' in the country.
Strongly condemning the creation of a super PMO -- the secretariat of 'common minimum programme council', BJP spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said for the first time, this office will be keeping a tab on the activities of its ministers and not PMO.
This council will emerge more powerful than the PMO and for the first time there would be two power centres which was against the constitution, he alleged.
He said Vigyan Bhavan was a venue for National and International meetings but now it will be<b> a hub of ''remote control government''. This is a conspiracy to create an extra-constitutional body in the country, he alleged</b>.
Agencies/ New Delhi
Criticising the attempts of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government to create a 'Super Prime Minister's Office' at Vigyan Bhavan, the BJP Friday said the whole effort had showed the real face of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was being projected as an ''icon of sacrifice'' in the country.
Strongly condemning the creation of a super PMO -- the secretariat of 'common minimum programme council', BJP spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said for the first time, this office will be keeping a tab on the activities of its ministers and not PMO.
This council will emerge more powerful than the PMO and for the first time there would be two power centres which was against the constitution, he alleged.
He said Vigyan Bhavan was a venue for National and International meetings but now it will be<b> a hub of ''remote control government''. This is a conspiracy to create an extra-constitutional body in the country, he alleged</b>.