At least four state chief executives, including K Chandrashekhar Rao, have made the decision to forgo the ninth
niti aayog Governing Council meeting scheduled for this
saturday in Delhi. 'Viksit Bharat @ 2047: Role of Team India' will be the topic of the summit, which will be presided over by
prime minister Narendra Modi.
The eighth Governing Council Meeting is intended to develop a roadmap for Viksit Bharat, the new
election slogan of the BJP-led union
government, by 2047. The
prime minister serves as the Governing Council's chairman, and its members include all of the Chief Ministers, the Lieutenant Governors of the union Territories, and several union Ministers.
NITI Aayog has been explicitly referred to as "useless" by
chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who last attended the Governing Council meeting in 2018, according to sources. T Harish Rao, the finance
minister, and other departmental representatives, however, spoke on behalf of the State. But according to reports, the Centre insisted that only the
chief minister attend the meeting that the
prime minister would be presiding over at the most recent communiqué.
We have generated a report on the payments owed to
telangana and other matters in accordance with the directions. However, since the Centre requested that the
chief minister participate personally, there has been no more contact in this respect, a finance department source informed us.
Apart from Chandrashekhar Rao, the chief ministers of West Bengal,
arvind kejriwal of Delhi, and Punjab, Bhagwant Singh Mann, have chosen not to attend the conference. Considering that the union
government has confirmed that the invitation was intended for the Chief Ministers, they are likewise choosing not to send representatives.
kejriwal made the decision to skip the
niti aayog meeting, saying that if "cooperative federalism becomes a joke, then it is not worth to join the meeting" while
mamata banerjee is preoccupied with other obligations and views the Centre's directive as a pretext to prevent the States from raising issues.