Union Tribal Affairs Minister and BJP leader Jual Oram on Thursday said the ruling BJD is contradicting the State Government’s view on the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Ordinance, 2015, which has been given Presidential assent on Monday. Oram said the State Government sometimes says the Centre didn’t communicate with it before promulgating the Ordinance unilaterally and at other time maintains that the Centre didn’t take the State’s grievances into account though the Centre had intimated it about the move.
“These are contradictory stands,” he said, adding, “If the State had complained to the Centre before the Ordinance is promulgated, how it is accusing the Centre that the latter didn’t communicate before taking the decision.” Oram said the MMDR Act is a Central subject and it has the right to make the amendment trough Ordinance route. “I’m surprised as to why the State is opposing the Centre’s decision,” he remarked.