Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has joined the list of chief ministers giving a miss to NITI Aayog’s fifth governing council meeting on Saturday. Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao are also missing the first meeting of the national planning body after the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls handed out a fresh mandate to BJP led NDA. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the NITI Aayog meeting at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Chief Ministers of the states, where the Congress is in power, with or without allies, were called to discuss issues to be raised at the Niti Aayog meeting . But it is not known why he decided against attending the Niti Aayog meeting,” he said.

Source: Hindustan Times June 15, 2019 08:43 UTC