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
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