KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is staying away from NITI Aayog’s governing council assembly in Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the assembly on June 16 to speak about the rustic’s construction time table for ‘New India 2022’ with chief ministers and individuals of the thinktank.
The council is also going to plan with states the celebrations for Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th delivery anniversary.
“I am not going to the NITI Aayog assembly. It has been known as at the day of Eid-ul-Fitr. I don’t go out of the state during the festival days. There is a countrywide holiday at the instance of Eid,” the executive minister said on Saturday.
The Bengal executive has already introduced a vacation on June 16, which is a Saturday. Sources within the state secretariat said Banerjee would possibly nominate a senior executive legitimate to wait the assembly.
This is the fourth time that Banerjee is skipping a NITI Aayog meet. The CM stayed away from conferences on 3 occasions between 2015 and 2018 following variations with the Modi executive’s policies — such as land acquisition and appointing central observers to supervise construction in maximum backward districts — or during drawing up of 15-year Vision Document for the rustic.
Banerjee additionally seized the chance to voice her angst at spiralling prices of petrol, diesel and LPG. “Skyrocketing prices have set kitchens on fire. We really feel concerned. There is hardly any measure to check them beyond exposure,” the CM said.
Banerjee’s determination has political significance as smartly. Her staying in Bengal during Eid, and Modi protecting a gathering at the identical day, is supposed to reassure vast sections of the minority that have expressed their faith in her. At the similar time, the CM flagged the spiralling prices, sending out a message that she stood through the folks, cutting throughout non secular traces, who have been pained through the fuel and LPG value upward thrust.
The council is also going to plan with states the celebrations for Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th delivery anniversary.
“I am not going to the NITI Aayog assembly. It has been known as at the day of Eid-ul-Fitr. I don’t go out of the state during the festival days. There is a countrywide holiday at the instance of Eid,” the executive minister said on Saturday.
The Bengal executive has already introduced a vacation on June 16, which is a Saturday. Sources within the state secretariat said Banerjee would possibly nominate a senior executive legitimate to wait the assembly.
This is the fourth time that Banerjee is skipping a NITI Aayog meet. The CM stayed away from conferences on 3 occasions between 2015 and 2018 following variations with the Modi executive’s policies — such as land acquisition and appointing central observers to supervise construction in maximum backward districts — or during drawing up of 15-year Vision Document for the rustic.
Banerjee additionally seized the chance to voice her angst at spiralling prices of petrol, diesel and LPG. “Skyrocketing prices have set kitchens on fire. We really feel concerned. There is hardly any measure to check them beyond exposure,” the CM said.
Banerjee’s determination has political significance as smartly. Her staying in Bengal during Eid, and Modi protecting a gathering at the identical day, is supposed to reassure vast sections of the minority that have expressed their faith in her. At the similar time, the CM flagged the spiralling prices, sending out a message that she stood through the folks, cutting throughout non secular traces, who have been pained through the fuel and LPG value upward thrust.
Mamata to skip NITI Aayog's meeting on Eid
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