New Delhi : The eighth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog will be held on Saturday in the capital of India, Delhi. This meeting of NITI Aayog will be held at Pragati Maidan. This time the theme of the meeting of NITI Aayog is ‘Developed India@550: Role of Team India’. However, representatives of many states will not attend this meeting of NITI Aayog. According to media reports, representatives of Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal will not attend the NITI Aayog meeting.

Arvind Kejriwal wrote a letter to PM Modi Due to the recent ordinance of the Center, he will not be able to attend the NITI Aayog meeting. Delhi’s elected government’s control over the bureaucracy has been taken back through an ordinance recently promulgated by the BJP-led central government.

Bhagwant Mann will boycott the meeting

AAP-ruled Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has also called for the NITI Aayog meeting to be held on Saturday. It has been decided to boycott the meeting. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to chair the eighth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog. An AAP leader told that Mann has taken this decision in protest against the alleged discrimination with Punjab by the central government on the issue of allocation of funds.

There will be no representative of West Bengal in the meeting

West Bengal will have no representative in the upcoming NITI Aayog meeting as the state has rejected the Trinamool Congress-led government’s request to send the finance minister and chief secretary. Center refused. The Center had ‘insisted’ that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee could attend the programme. Banerjee has already decided not to attend the eighth Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog.

Why the representative of Bengal will not attend

West Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said that we requested the Center I wanted me and the Chief Secretary to be allowed to attend the meeting as Mamata Banerjee is busy with some other work. This is an indirect way of not allowing anyone other than the Chief Minister to attend the meeting. Hence there will be no representative of West Bengal in Saturday’s meeting.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the eighth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog. The Governing Council of NITI Aayog consists of Chief Ministers of all States and Union Territories with Legislatures and Lieutenant Governors of other Union Territories, besides several Union Ministers.