Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today posed several incisive questions before the Central Government, notably the latter's inimical attitude towards a progressive and peaceful state like Gujarat.

Addressing the Chief Ministers' National Security Council meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the chair, Mr. Modi said that on the one hand the Union Home Ministry quotes National Crime Record Bureau to praise Gujarat for its peaceful law-and-order situation, but at the same time the PMO-controlled CBI is trying to mislead the Supreme Court with false statements to malign Gujarat.

As to how the Centre misuses the CBI as in leveling charges about the state's cooperative banks' alleged fraud currency notes, he said, when Gujarat asked for the details the CBI refused that it ever fed the media about such news.

Mr. Modi also criticized the Centre's step motherly treatment to Gujarat in buying arms from abroad. The Centre suggested the states buy arms from Turkey when Germany and Austria refused arms sales to states like Andhra, Orissa and Punjab citing misuse of the arms as the reason. He asked as to how other nations could interfere into India's internal security matters.

He also asked as to why the Centre did not invoke the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to get back black money stacked in Swiss banks, as that money pose danger to India's security. The Union Home Money in its agenda note in rules 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9, suggests the states to use the same Act in preventing economic offences.