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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Congress MPs boycott meeting called by Modi

Congress MPs boycott meeting called by Modi

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GANDHINAGAR: Congress me-mbers of Parliament on Saturday boycotted a meeting called by chief minister Narendra Modi to discuss "pending issues" with the Government of India.

Bharatsinh Solanki, MP from Anand and minister of state for railways in the Union government, told TOI that it has been Modi's style to call a meeting "without consulting us only to rake up non-existent issues against the Centre". He added, "The UPA government has given more help to Gujarat than demanded. One can check the records."


Of the 26 Congress MPs in Lok Sabha, 11 are from Gujarat. It has three Rajya Sabha MPs out of 11. Addressing the all-BJP gathering, Modi urged MPs to take up Gujarat's pending projects with the Centre, handing over a list of 67 "most urgent projects in a book to the MPs pending with different Union ministries at the Centre for the last several years", an official note issued at the end of the meeting said. The meeting is a routine exercise, called before each budget session of Parliament. Modi asked the MPs to "highlight the Centre's partisan policies and political vendetta towards Gujarat".

While most BJP MPs from Gujarat attended the meeting, senior leaders LK Advani, MP from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency, and Arun Jaitley, who represents Gujarat in the Rajya Sabha, did not turn up. All Gujarat ministers and senior secretaries attended the meeting. "The state has spent Rs 20,000 crore on the Centre's education for all scheme under the mandatory Right to Education Act, including capital expenditure of Rs 7,000 crore and revenue expenditure of Rs 1,300 crore on building 80,000 new classrooms, appointment of 90,000 teachers, but received only Rs 700 crore assistance from the Centre," Modi said.

Modi said the Centre has refused to provide "domestic coal linkage" to Gujarat's coal-based power plants from Orissa coalfields. He demanded "fuel subsidy" of Rs 440 crore, incurred by the state on account of costlier imported coal. Other issues he asked the MPs to take up included refusal to block gas in Panna-Mukta-Tapti basin to GSPC. Modi called for "early decision" on new highways and railway up-gradation projects along the DMIC, adding, "Being a border state, the Centre should seriously take up the case of vessel traffic movement in the Gulf of Kutch."

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