Sonia Gandhi as NAC head is psuedo-constitutional power centre: BJP

BJP today said Congress president Sonia Gandhi's appointment as chairperson of the National Advisory Council (NAC) has created a "psuedo-constitutional power centre" which would lead to "redundancy" of the post of prime minister.

"The appointment of Sonia Gandhi as chairperson of NAC has given rise to a psuedo-constitutional power centre. We already
have a shaky prime minister reeling under challenges of price rise, terror and failed diplomacy added up with charges of messing up the economy," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy told PTI.

Rudy maintained that the supervisory positioning of Gandhi on the prime minister will lead to "redundancy of the PM and amply dilute the primacy and positioning as head of government.

"This would be dangerous for democracy as it would completely undermine the confidence and authority of the chief executive of the country who as per the constitution is the prime minister."

Another BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said with Gandhi's new appointment there would be no "pretense of a remote control".

"What was happening through the remote control till now will now happen directly," he insisted.