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 throughout the assembly, they added.
It was unclear why Nitish Kumar was unable to attend the necessary assembly straight away, although sources counsel that the central authorities’s approval of finances proposals for Puducherry might have influenced his choice to skip the assembly.
Prime Minister Modi chaired the assembly, specializing in varied 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 chance to talk. She criticised the Union Funds as “politically biased,” highlighting her considerations over the federal government’s fiscal insurance policies.
Niti Aayog, the central authorities’s premier public coverage assume tank, includes the Prime Minister as Chairman, together with Chief Ministers from all states, Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories, and varied union ministers.
Sources point out that chief ministers from BJP-ruled states have 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 In the present day TV previous to the assembly.
Amongst those that selected to boycott the assembly have 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.
