Hyderabad:
Asking the Government to keepimplementation of National Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) inabeyance, BJP demanded that Prime Minister ManmohanSingh immediately convene a meeting of Chief Ministers todiscuss the contentious issue threadbare.
"The proposed NCTC must be put on hold for widerconsultation notwithstanding the March 1 deadline for launchof the anti-terror intelligence hub. The Prime Minister shouldcall a meeting of Chief Ministers to discuss and allay theirfears about it," BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said.
"It was an unilateral decision of the Central Government(to set up NCTC)," he told reporters here.
Terrorism poses a threat to the entire country and boththe Centre and the states should jointly fight the menace, theformer BJP President maintained.
Naidu, who is also Chairman of Parliamentary StandingCommittee on Home Affairs, said 11 Chief Ministers havedemanded the repeal of NCTC, which he said, was notifiedwithout taking the State Governments into confidence.
The Home Minister writing a letter to CMs and callingDGPs' meeting for consultation on the subject was not asolution, Naidu said, adding there was a need for a unanimousdecision on such a serious and sensitive matter.
"Hasty action" over the anti-terror body by theCongress-led UPA Government would only weaken the unity of thecountry and set the States and the Centre on a collisioncourse, the former Union Minister warned.
Non-Congress Chief Ministers have opposed NCTC, saying itimpinges on the powers of the states.