Mamata Banerjee to participate in Niti Aayog's meeting
Mamata Banerjee
The meet was initially scheduled for June 16, the day when Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated. However the date was later shifted to June 17 after Banerjee and a few other chief ministers, including Andhra Pradesh's N Chandrababu Naidu, had expressed unwillingness to attend the meeting in view of the Ramzan festivities
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee confirmed on Friday that she will be participating in the Niti Aayog's rescheduled governing council meeting in New Delhi on June 17.
The meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meet was initially scheduled for June 16, the day when Eid-ul-Fitr will be celebrated. However the date was later shifted to June 17 after Banerjee and a few other chief ministers, including Andhra Pradesh's N Chandrababu Naidu, had expressed unwillingness to attend the meeting in view of the Ramzan festivities.
"I was the one who had pointed out that Eid will be celebrated on June 16 when the Niti Aayog meeting was earlier scheduled. I had told that we have to participate in prayers and various programmes on Eid and the meeting was then postponed to June 17," Banerjee said while addressing reporters in Kolkata.
She also added that she would reach New Delhi by Saturday night and return on Monday.
PM Modi will chair the fourth meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog at Rashtrapati Bhawan on Sunday. The day-long meeting will be attended by Union Ministers, Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories and senior officials from Government of India.
The council is expected to discuss subjects including measures taken to double farmers’ income, progress of schemes such as Ayushman Bharat, National Nutrition Mission and Mission Indradhanush, development of aspirational districts and celebration of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi