National Advisory Council was no power centre, advocated people's rights: Sonia Gandhi
National Advisory Council (NAC) was 'uncharitably caricatured' as a 'separate power centre' when it functioned purely as an 'advisory body to the Prime Minister', the former Congress President Sonia Gandhi has said in an essay in an upcoming book.
She adds that this was ironic given that NDA has openly been taking directions from the 'unelected and unaccountable' RSS.
«It is extremely ironic that the NAC was vilified, when the current National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has routinely deposed before, and taken direction on policy and legislation from the unelected and unaccountable Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), most visibly in September 2015 when Union ministers gave detailed presentations explaining their policies, and south their 'marg darshan' (guidance), as Prime Minister Narendra Modi put it», Gandhi writes in her essay titled- Enhancing People's Rights and Freedoms- The NAC revisited.
She also holds forth that the NAC's role was limited to submitting recommendations to the PM and the final decision was left to the discretion of the Union government.
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- «The NAC did not get involved in shaping the Executive's decisions or in operationalizing the final decisions. In fact, numerous recommendations submitted by the NAC were not taken up by the Executive, further underscoring
