“India is united against the dictatorship of the dictator,” the AAP wrote in a post on X.
The TMC chiefs’ meeting with the family comes at a time when CM Arvind Kejriwal is lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a liquor policy case.
CM Mamata arrived in Delhi to attend the meeting of Niti Aayog, which she said should be scrapped and demanded that the Planning Commission be restored.
Niti Aayog meeting is scheduled to take place on Saturday (July 27).
CM Mamata will be attending the meeting as most INDIA bloc chief ministers have decided to give it a miss. The Bengal CM said she felt their voices should be raised on a common platform.
“They (BJP) have formed the government but they don’t have people’s mandate. This is the first time after the BJP came in, since 2014, they have not formed the government as a single party.
She said that because of their “compulsions”, the BJP-ruled NDA has brought a “politically very biased budget” which “deprives” all opposition states.
“I thought it is my duty to raise this voice at least on a common platform though I know the Niti Aayog has no financial powers,” she said.
“Since the Niti Aayog has been planned, I have not seen a single work being done because they don’t have any power. Earlier, there was a Planning Commission. As a chief minister… at that time I saw there was a system,” she said.
She said state governments had power to discuss their issues under the Planning Commission and it was very good at taking care of states in different areas. “But now there is no hope, no scope.”
Banerjee said the Niti Aayog should be scrapped.
“I will raise my voice that stop this Niti Aayog. They do not have any financial implication. They cannot do anything, only hold meeting once a year to show their face. Please bring back the Planning Commission again,” Banerjee said.
“It was a plan of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and since Independence, the Planning Commission has worked a lot for the country,” she said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the Niti Aayog’s ninth Governing Council meeting on July 27 which will focus on making India a developed nation by 2047.
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