'Make reports on arrest-related incidents public'

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JULY 2. A former Member of Parliament, Mr. Era Sezhiyan, today asked the Centre to make public the reports of the Governor, the Chief Secretary, the NDA panel and others about the incidents surrounding the arrest of the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr. M. Karunanidhi.

The reports need not be treated as secret documents, he said and pointed out that whenever President's rule was imposed in a State, the copy of the proclamation under Article 356 would be placed before Parliament along with the Report of the Governor.

In this context, he noted that the NDA had committed itself to transparency in the decision-making process.

Mr. Sezhiyan recalled that the Centre was not pleased with the Governor, Ms. Fathima Beevi, for not consulting it before inviting Ms. Jayalalithaa to form the Government. The Governor had also not sent a report to suit the wishes of the Centre against the State Government. ``In the past, it has been the demand of the DMK and the BJP that the Governor not be treated as an agent of the Centre and not be called to affix signature on the reports prepared in Delhi. The same parties, now in power, seem to have no need for a Governor acting on those principles,'' he said.

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