In response to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegations that her microphone was turned off during the NITI Aayog meeting, Supriyo Bhattacharya, General Secretary of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), called the incident as discriminatory, asserting that all states have equal r
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."
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.
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".
"...I said you (central government) should not discriminate against state governments. I wanted to speak but my mic was muted. I was allowed to speak only for 5 minutes. People before me spoke for 10-20 minutes," Banerjee told reporters after she stormed out of the NITI Aayog meeting toda