Feeling too much intellect is also bad. This has been proved in case of high-profile and over-estimated Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. He has to fall flat on his face with the proposal to thrust upon his grandeur National Counter Terrorism Centre (NTPC) on Union of States.

The greed to further concretize its (read rulers of Delhi, especially of the Congress) hold on states to political blackmail regional parties-led governments by our ‘intellect’ Chidambaram backfired with Opposition-led states slamming the Centre’s for its ‘unconvincing’ proposal’ at the specially convened Chief Minister’s Conference last week chaired by none other than the Prime Minister.

The ‘hidden’ agenda of NCTC was well understood by the Opposition and it was the Biju Janata Dal president and chief minister of Odisha, first shoot down, along with AIADMK supremo and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Later non-Congress-led state chief ministers fallen in line to oppose the Centre’s proposal to thrust upon the draconian institution with ulterior motives.

How the 125-year-old Congress-led UPA coalition government at the Centre is adopting ‘arm-twisting’, if not ‘political blackmailing’ tactics to fight their opponents using the so called premier investigating agency called Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is for everyone to see. It had been used effectively to silence most vocal and vociferous critics of that party like Mulayam Singh of Samajwad Party and Lalu Prasad Yadav of ….. Both these parties which born out of Janata Party experiment fought and captured power in two big states of the country like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. But, for their omissions and commissions, they were forced to toe the line of Congress party on which ever issue. Reason: Fear of criminal cases pending against them by CBI.

In that backdrop, some of those regional party chiefs holding forts in some states like Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chattisgarh and West Bengal, care no less as they have no criminal cases pending against them being probed by either CBI or any other agency. Hence, they dare the Centre to oppose to implant or impose yet another investigating agency like NCTC under the garb of ‘fighting terrorism’.

Perhaps, Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, was right when he says; ‘one does not have to go far back in history to recalled that eminent political leaders were branded as threats to national security and put behind bars during the emergency.’ Is not a fact that it was late Mrs Indira Gandhi, who put host of national leaders for just opposing her ‘dangerous’ policies by imposing emergency?

That’s why I, as a political analyst, also accept with the blunt observation of Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who says quoting numerous security analysts opinion; ‘NCTC placed under the Intelligence Bureau would be prone to political misuse.”

Even Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, whom the ‘Godhra ghost’ continue to haunt even after the Supreme Court SIT giving him a ‘clean chit’ was of the opinion that ‘a piecemeal approach with disjointed efforts will not lead us to the desired goal. We cannot go on creating agencies and organizations and yet fail to achieve the purpose.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, who joined the ‘chorus’ to oppose make cautious statement on NCTC; “My state was not even sent a copy of the order setting up the NCTC. Any discussion on the NCTC is in fructuous as long as the notification of NCTC is in force.’ She had to force to make such a statement knowing fully that several CBI cases are pending against her and they are at trial stage in courts.

Of them all, one appreciate Dr Raman Singh, Chief Minister of Chattisgarh, for raising fundamental question by asking the Centre; “Our Constitution is based on cooperative federalism, but I feel that it is being changed to subordination-based federalism.”

But, the Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who was first to fire salvo on NCTC says; “There is need for an organization at central level to tackle terrorism and left-wing extremism. But, NCTC in its present form is simple not acceptable.”

For coming under ‘fire’ from the Chief Ministers, the Congress-led UPA-II government was rather forced to put its draconian proposal on the backburner.

Though Chidambaram is well known among people as legal luminary, yet some of his ideas like 2-G (as Finance Minister), NCTC and Telangana (now as Home Minister) exposes his criminal mind-set. He bound to go into history pages as one of the worst side of Chanukyas that country had ever produced.