Bengaluru, April 05, 2015, DHNS
The Centre on Saturday tried to distance itself from the controversy over pictorial warnings on tobacco packets.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters it was for Parliament to decide on having bigger pictorial warnings on tobacco packets.
“There is a procedure in the Parliamentary system. One version is for changing it (pictorial warning). It is now before Parliament, and the chair will decide in this regard,” he said.
Three BJP MPs, who were part of a Parliamentary panel that recommended against bigger warning, had taken the opposite stand and demanded a bigger warning.
Another section of party MPs are against the bigger warning.
Jaitley, however, said the government intends to discourage tobacco use.
He also distanced the BJP from the comments of party MP Dilip Gandhi, who had said there was no evidence linking tobacco use with cancer.
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