BJP wants Centre to bring law and order in concurrent list

Hyderabad, Apr 10: Bharatiya Janata Party National Executive member and  former union minister Ch Vidyasagar Rao today urged the Centre to bring Law and Order subject under the Concurrent List of the Constitution to remove confusion over its handling.Terming as 'unfortunate' the killing of 75 CRPF personnel by extremists in Dantewada, Mr Rao told a press conference here that there was a need for a stringent federal law to curb the menace. It was high time that the Law and Order subject was removed from the State List to the Concurrent List as insurgency had inter-state ramifications, he opined. Maintaining that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram should not step down when the 'war against extremists is on,' he said, the Centre should concentrate on inter-state coordination for curbing extremism. He reminded mediapersons that the Central allocation for modernisation of state police forces had been hiked from Rs 200 crore earlier to Rs 1,000 crore when the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance was in power.
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