Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today disapproved of Union Minister Sharad Pawar's meeting with Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray making it clear that his government was "competent enough" to give adequate security to IPL matches.

"I do not think there is need to take permission from any other authority in the state... There cannot be an extra- constitutional authority," Chavan told reporters adding that "...government is competent, it is the authority and there can not be two authorities in state."

Declaring that his government was "competent enough" to handle any law and order problem in the state, Chavan, however, refused to comment on why Pawar met Thackeray on the issue.

He, however, insisted that there cannot be "any other power centre" and that democratically elected government will do its work.

Date : 08/02/2010. News by Newsofap.com