NEW DELHI: Chief ministers from opposition-ruled states, who arrived in the capital on Saturday evening to attend the meeting of Niti Aayog governing council, are anticipated to use the consult with to discuss issues with which they wish to confront the Centre in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Soon after landing, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited sick former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee who is admitted to AIIMS.
On Saturday evening, 4 opposition CMs - Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh), H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka) and Pinarayi Vijayan (Kerala)-got in combination and even made an try to meet Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, who is on a sit-in at the LG's workplace at the side of a few of his cabinet colleagues. They went to Kejriwal's house and met his wife.
Both Banerjee and Naidu had tweeted in improve of Kejriwal whose AAP is protesting in opposition to the LG.
The opposition CMs, who received in combination closing month in Bengaluru all the way through the swearing-in rite of Kumaraswamy at the head of a JD(S)- Cong coalition executive, plan to tackle Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Aayog's meeting as they really feel that many of the Centre's policies have violated the "federal spirit" of the Constitution.
Before leaving for Delhi, Banerjee mentioned it was once on her insistence that the federal government deferred the Niti Aayog meeting by way of a day in view of Eid festivities on Saturday. "My question to the central government officials is whether they were aware that Eid would fall on June 16. Why was the Niti Aayog meeting scheduled for this day?" she mentioned. Some other opposition CMs too had expressed unwillingness to attend the meeting on Saturday.
Soon after landing, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee visited sick former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee who is admitted to AIIMS.
On Saturday evening, 4 opposition CMs - Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Chandrababu Naidu (Andhra Pradesh), H D Kumaraswamy (Karnataka) and Pinarayi Vijayan (Kerala)-got in combination and even made an try to meet Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, who is on a sit-in at the LG's workplace at the side of a few of his cabinet colleagues. They went to Kejriwal's house and met his wife.
Both Banerjee and Naidu had tweeted in improve of Kejriwal whose AAP is protesting in opposition to the LG.
The opposition CMs, who received in combination closing month in Bengaluru all the way through the swearing-in rite of Kumaraswamy at the head of a JD(S)- Cong coalition executive, plan to tackle Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Aayog's meeting as they really feel that many of the Centre's policies have violated the "federal spirit" of the Constitution.
Before leaving for Delhi, Banerjee mentioned it was once on her insistence that the federal government deferred the Niti Aayog meeting by way of a day in view of Eid festivities on Saturday. "My question to the central government officials is whether they were aware that Eid would fall on June 16. Why was the Niti Aayog meeting scheduled for this day?" she mentioned. Some other opposition CMs too had expressed unwillingness to attend the meeting on Saturday.
On eve of Niti Aayog meet, CMs unite to take on PM Narendra Modi
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