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| Don't comment on internal security: PM tells all ministers | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
NEW DELHI, Apr 12: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked all ministers to refrain from commenting in the media on matters of internal security, sources in the government said. The ministers received Sunday a circular sent by Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar on behalf of the Prime Minister.
The Cabinet Secretary stated in his missive that the Prime Minister "desires" that ministers should not remark on the internal security of the country and should not voice "different opinions" on the matter.
The Home Ministry is competent to react to such matters, it added.
It is learnt that the Prime Minister gave the direction for the circular after colleagues like Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Food Processing Minister Subodh Kant Sahay commented on the attack.
"The CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) has set up at least 200 camps in that area. Why are they being allowed to stay?" Mamata had said.
"The states should realise the fact that the growth of Naxalites is because of the existing socio-economic problems there.
The states have failed to achieve the desired development and unless these problems are properly addressed, the Maoists won't be uprooted. The non-cooperation of the states with the Centre is evident from the absence of Chief Ministers of Bihar and Jharkhand at a crucial meeting called by Chidambaram in Kolkata recently," Sahay had said.
The Prime Minister's direction comes after the April 6 massacre of 76 security personnel in the forests of Chhattisgarh, the largest Maoist attack in four decades.
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