Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, rpeortedly skipped the PM Narendra Modi led Governing Council assembly of Niti Aayog on Saturday, the officers mentioned.
As an alternative Bihar’s deputy chief ministers Vijay Kumar Sinha and Samrat Choudhary represented the state in the course of the assembly, they added.
It was unclear why Nitish Kumar was unable to attend the vital assembly instantly, although sources counsel that the central authorities’s approval of price range proposals for Puducherry might have influenced his determination to skip the assembly.
Prime Minister Modi chaired the assembly, specializing in numerous growth points and coverage issues.
The assembly, nonetheless, noticed a notable boycott from a number of Opposition chief ministers, with solely West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a member of the INDIA bloc, in attendance.
Following the discussions, Banerjee expressed her frustration, claiming she was not given a possibility to talk. She criticised the Union Finances as “politically biased,” highlighting her issues over the federal government’s fiscal insurance policies.
Niti Aayog, the central authorities’s premier public coverage assume tank, contains the Prime Minister as Chairman, together with Chief Ministers from all states, Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories, and numerous union ministers.
Sources point out that chief ministers from BJP-ruled states had been instructed to take part within the assembly and current their governments’ key achievements to Prime Minister Modi. “The chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states have been requested to focus on the achievements of their tenure in workplace, in addition to the efficiency of varied departments and schemes,” a supply knowledgeable India At present TV previous to the assembly.
Amongst those that selected to boycott the assembly had been Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and Congress leaders together with Karnataka’s Siddaramaiah, Himachal Pradesh’s Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, and Telangana’s Revanth Reddy.
