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The Union Health Ministry is clear and consistent in its stand and committed to implementing printing of larger pictorial warning on tobacco products, Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda has said.
He said the Parliamentary Committee would have to give its collective view and "we will not go by individual views," he said at a press conference here.
“We have given our view. The committee is examining it and we stand by our view,” he said.
Answering questions on the implementation of larger warnings, he said: “Let’s wait for the recommendations of the committee and not anticipate it,” he said.
Nadda, in charge of BJP for Andhra Pradesh, was here to participate in the State executive committee meeting of the party.
Earlier this month the Health Ministry had kept in abeyance increasing the size of the warning to 85 per cent following the recommendation of the Committee on Subordinate Legislation examining the Provisions of Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products Act, 2003.
Subsequently it was reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed the printing of larger warnings.
The comments of BJP MP and Parliamentary Committee chairman Diliip Gandhi that research in India had shown no link between cancer and tobacco evoked widespread criticism.
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