Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in a NITI Aayog meeting in New Delhi on Saturday and said that the state is committed to achieving the vision of a 'Viksit Bharat' and emphasised the importance of promoting entrepreneurship in rural areas to realise this goal.
After crashing out of the Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi midway, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Centre of "insulting Bengal" by interrupting her speech after five minutes, adding that it was a deliberate attempt to "malign the Opposition
The declaration was the culmination of a two-day meeting held from July 25-26, under the presidency of Brazil. The Indian delegation was led by Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shobha Karandlaje.
Speaking at the 14th East Asia Summit in Vientiane, Jaishankar further noted that the Act East Policy, which was announced at the 9th EAS, has completed a decade now, and India will continue to uphold ASEAN unity and centrality through the Act East Policy.
While addressing a press conference, after the NITI Aayog meeting, Subrahmanyam said that the West Bengal CM requested to speak early before lunch and "it was accepted."
The gathering comes as the Chief Ministers of all BJP-ruled states are in Delhi for the 9th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog. The BJP meeting's agenda includes discussing the election results of their respective states and formulating future strategies.
After Himachal CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu abstained from the NITI Aayog meeting that was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP leader said , "It is very unfortunate that there is a platform where you can take up issues. If there is something lacking in the Union budget, you could have
Rawat's statement comes after, the West Bengal CM claimed that her microphone was switched off during a meeting of the NITI Aayog in the national capital on Saturday.
PM Modi said, "This decade is of changes, technological &; geo-political, and also of opportunities. India should grab these opportunities and make our policies conducive for international investments. This is the stepping stone for progress to make India a developed nation."
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday rejected West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that her microphone was switched off while she was speaking at the NITI Aayog meeting and said that every chief minister was "allotted due time to speak".
Participating in the 9th meeting of the Niti Aayog Governing Council in New Delhi on Saturday, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat CM reaffirmed Gujarat's commitment to realizing the Prime Minister's vision of 'Viksit Bharat' by 2047.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla sharply criticised the opposition parties for choosing to boycott the NITI Aayog meeting on Saturday and argued that the INDIA bloc consistently opposes anything beneficial for the country, suggesting that their issue wasn't with the budget itself but with