Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and condemned the act of deduction of Rs 1,417 crore from the account of state with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in connection with the pending payment of Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
In the letter, Soren said that the deduction had been made as per the three-party agreement but he was hurt by the act as during the pandemic the government should not have deducted the money.
"The agreement was inked under normal situation but the implementation of the provisions of the act amid the coronavirus crisis in the first impression appears to be unconstitutional, immoral and attack the federal structure of the country," he said.
He said that in the history of Independent India this was the second occasion when such type of deduction has been made.
"Other states have more dues than Jharkhand which only owed just Rs 5,500 crore which has been deducted from the account of a tribal, Dalit and minorities dominated state like Jharkhand," he added.