New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday wrote a letter to the Council of Ministers directing them to speak in one voice and desist from commenting on issue not directly related to their ministries.
He made it clear that Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is the only one authorised to deal with issues related to internal security.
The letter has been addressed to the entire Council of Ministers including state ministers. Manmohan's latter comes after some Cabinet colleagues including Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee and Union minister for food processing Subodh Kant Sahay commented on the Dantewada massacre.
Mamata alleged that Operation Green Hunt was being conducted just to help the LEft Front regain its lost ground in the left wing extremism-affected areas.
"The CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) has set up at least 200 camps in that area. Why are they being allowed to stay?" she had said.
Sahay had said that states were to blame for the growing Maoist violence.
"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 said.
Maoists had killed 76 security personnel in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh on April 6.
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