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
Participating in the ninth meeting of the Niti Aayog Governing Council, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel reaffirmed Gujarat's commitment to realising the Prime Minister's vision of 'Viksit Bharat' and determined to make the state achieve a USD 3.5 trillion economy by 2047.
"I can only say that these so-called INDI bloc members, it is not at all an alliance because Mamata did not give a single seat to Congress in polls," Pralhad Joshi said.
Chief Ministers of opposition-led states including Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Delhi and Punjab boycotted the 9th NITI Aayog's Governing Council meeting chaired by PM Modi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in the national capital.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Manoj Jha took a dig at the apex public policy think tank of the central government and said that the NITI Aayog is a 'failed idea', adding that the body that was formed for a particular academic exercise achieved absolutely nothing.
After the Congress and opposition Chief Minister boycotted the NITI Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary D Raja on Saturday questioned the work done by the NITI Aayog and said that the NITI Aayog is proposing the privatisa
Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told ANI that it is "completely false" of Mamata Banerjee to claim that her microphone was switched off and claimed that every chief minister at the meeting was "allotted their due time to speak."
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut backed the INDIA alliance chief ministers' decision to not attend the NITI Aayog meeting. He alleges that the government and NITI Ayog treat impartially to the non-NDA states
Making India a developed country by 2047 is ambition of every Indian, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday and noted that states can play an active role in achieving this aim as they are directly connected with people.
Calling the Union Budget "futuristic," Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday dismissed the allegations levied against the Centre that it did not give enough funds to the southern states where the Bharatiya Janata Party did not fare well in the elections and said that Tamil Nadu was given
Following the state-wide protest against the Union Budget, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran on Saturday said that southern states, especially Tamil Nadu, are constantly being "neglected" by the central government.
"...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