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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Raipur to skip plan panel over Binayak by Jaideep Hardikar

Raipur to skip plan panel over Binayak by Jaideep Hardikar

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published Published on May 17, 2011   modified Modified on May 17, 2011
Chhattisgarh’s BJP government has decided to abstain from Planning Commission meetings in protest against the inclusion of Binayak Sen in its steering committee on health.

Chief minister Raman Singh has told TV channels that an elected government cannot attend meetings where a “convict” will be present.

Senior state officials, though, said that bureaucrats would be sent to plan panel meetings on financial matters such as outlays and projects. Skipping these meetings can hurt a state government.

Sen, 61, was jailed for life by a Chhattisgarh court for sedition but later granted bail under the orders of the Supreme Court, which observed that no case of sedition could be made out against him. Sen’s appeal against his conviction is pending in Chhattisgarh High Court.

The Centre has earned praise from Sen’s fellow rights activists by appointing him to the plan panel committee on May 11. He is to advise the committee on the health policy for the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17).

The Chhattisgarh government today issued a statement confirming that none of its ministers would attend any of the plan panel’s meetings, where states are expected to provide inputs for the 12th Plan. Raipur is expected to communicate this decision shortly to the office of the Prime Minister, who is the Planning Commission chairman.

The plan panel’s 40-member steering committee on health is expected to hold its first meeting on May 25 or May 26. It will review the National Health Policy, 2002, and explore the possibility of adopting a rights-based approach to health issues.

Syeda Hameed, a committee member, has said that Sen was inducted because “his inputs on malnutrition in tribal children would be crucial while formulating the 12th Plan”. Sen, a paediatrician, has worked extensively among Chhattisgarh’s impoverished tribals.

The Chhattisgarh BJP has taken the issue to the streets, accusing the Congress of “playing with people’s sentiments”. Yesterday, the party’s medical cell staged a sit-in at Raipur demanding the plan panel reconsider its decision.

“The state government will take an appropriate decision at its level, but as a party we will oppose the UPA’s decision,” Chhattisgarh BJP president Ram Sevak Paikra said.

“It is beyond our comprehension why the government has appointed a person who is facing sedition charges in Chhattisgarh and has connections with Maoists.”

Paikra said that though Sen had received bail, the case against him was not over. “Sen’s appointment is not in the national interest,” he said.

The Telegraph, 17 May, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110517/jsp/nation/story_13991929.jsp


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