Ministerial discomfort

The Union minister of state for environment and forests (not to forget, independent charge), Jairam Ramesh, made a curious remark while signing off on the Posco project in Orissa. While declaring correctly that “faith and trust in what the state government says is an essential pillar of cooperative federalism”, and gratuitously conceding that “beyond a point, the bona fides of a democratically elected state government cannot always be questioned by the Centre.”

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