Congress hails President’s decision to return Gujarat’s anti-terror bill

Congress today hailed President Pranab Mukherjee’s action of returning a controversial anti-terror bill, passed by the Gujarat assembly but twice rejected by the previous UPA government.

“The President has raised several queries while returning the bill. It is a right step. We welcome it,” party spokesman Jairam Ramesh told reporters.

The Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GCTOC) Bill, 2015, which has been hanging fire since Narendra Modi, as Gujarat chief minister first introduced it in 2003, was returned by the President to the home ministry as he sought more inputs related to certain provisions.

“Home ministry will provide the additional inputs to the President after obtaining the same from the Gujarat government,” a Home Ministry official said.

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