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Now, Trinamool red flags digital TV deadline-Mohua Chatterjee


Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress appears set to open another front against the Centre - this time over the June 30 deadline for changing the delivery of cable TV to digital. West Bengal government's urban development minister Firhad Hakim claimed here on Tuesday that the deadline was fixed "without consulting states". 

He said the June 30 deadline would "create problems for cable operators" in the state and would mean that people would have to fork out more for the changeover. He added that if forced, the situation could even "create law and order problems in the state and then the state government will be blamed ". 

"Suddenly, setting a deadline to implement introduction of set-top boxes is a conspiracy being hatched to disturb law and order in Kolkata," Hakim said. "Why did they suddenly take a decision without informing the state government?" The minister, in the capital for a meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority, met joint secretary in charge of dealing with states on the matter, Rajiv Takru, to register his objections. 

West Bengal urban development minister Firhad Hakim said, "We would like them (Centre) to come to Kolkata for a meeting with us and cable operators (over changing the delivery of cable TV to digital). You have to give them time," Hakim told reporters before his meeting with Rajiv Takru, joint secretary in-charge of dealing with states on the matter. When it was pointed out that the changeover was being worked out for the last two years and state governments had been consulted, Hakim said, "Two years ago we were not in government... you never did anything for so long and now suddenly there is a 15-day notice. The country cannot be run in this Tughlaqi style (reference to ruler Mohammad Bin Tughlaq)."