Bangalore, Apr 2 : Senior Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister, M Veerappa Moily, today filed his nomination for Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate from Chikballapur constituency.
Earlier in the day, he resigned as the Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC). Moily as the ARC chief was instrumental in bringing out reports on a variety of topics concerning governance as also one on terrorism.
New Delhi, Sept 16 : The second Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) on Tuesday recommended the establishment of a federal agency to investigate acts of terror in the country and comprehensive anti-terror legislations.
The ARC in its eight report also said that no person accused of an offence punishable under the National Security Act (NSA) should be released on bail.
ARC chairman M Veerappa Moily, while releasing the report, told reporters on Tuesday that the commission was of the view that a federal agency was necessary to investigate terrorist offences.
"The Administrative Reforms Commission recommends comprehensive anti-terror legislations," said Moily.
New Delhi, Sep. 16: Veerappa Moily, the Chairman of the adminstrative Reforms Commission, has also been active in the recent past as Chief of the Congress media cell, but very few in the Capital have known him as a distinguished novelist.
B. R. Narayan has just translated Moily’ latest Kannada novel, Tembare, into Hindi. With the title ‘Dhol’ the novel is all set to drum up the problems facing the lower strata of society in coastal Karnataka.