Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the 8th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog today to discuss various topics including health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development with the goal of making India a developed nation by 2047. The apex body of NITI Aayog is the Council, which includes all chief ministers, lieutenant governors of union territories and various Union ministers. News agency PTI reported that Modi is chairing the Niti Aayog.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister KCR and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will skip the 8th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog in the national capital on Saturday. In his letter to PM Modi, Kejriwal said that he would boycott the meeting in protest against the Centre’s ordinance on regulation of services in Delhi.
In a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, he remarked that NITI Aayog aims to create a vision of India and promote cooperative federalism, but democracy has been “assaulted” over the years by the Modi government.
The letter, originally written in Hindi, said, “The way democracy has been attacked in the last few years, non-BJP governments are being toppled, broken or not allowed to function, This is neither our vision of India nor cooperative federalism.” ,
Kejriwal claimed, “For the last few years, a message is being given across the country that if people form a government of a non-BJP party in a state, it will not be tolerated.”
“NITI Aayog will hold its 8th Governing Council meeting on May 27, 2023 on the theme ‘Development India @ 2047: The role of Team India’,” the commission said in a statement.
As per the statement, the world’s fifth largest economy and most populous country, India is on its economic growth trajectory where it can achieve rapid growth over the next 25 years.
According to the statement, the 8th Governing Council meeting provides an opportunity to prepare a blueprint for a developed India by 2047 in which the Center and the States can collaborate as Team India.
