Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao, on Saturday, presented that he’s now not going to abet the Niti Aayog meeting on Sunday. He said that the Centre’s assume tank and its meetings attend “no positive reason” and that taking part chief ministers are given “rarely a miniature while” to utter their views.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the seventh governing council meeting of the Niti Aayog on Sunday. The PM’s place of work said that the meeting will pave the style for a original generation of collaboration between the Centre and the states.
In a strongly-worded letter to PM Modi, Rao, on the total referred to by his initials KCR, said, “I conclude now not bag it precious to abet the seventh Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog scheduled to be held on August 7, 2022 and I’m staying a ways from it as a imprint of sturdy exclaim against the show fashion of Central authorities to discriminate against the states and now not treating them as equal companions in our collective effort to bag India a sturdy and developed nation.”
I conclude now not bag it precious to abet the seventh Governing council meeting of #NITIAYOG scheduled to be held on Aug seventh, 2022.
I’m asserting a ways from it .
– CM KCR garu.#Telangana pic.twitter.com/mvWlwcpJ8M— YSR (@ysathishreddy) August 6, 2022
This could presumably perchance be the first in-person meeting of the council after July 2019 and its participants comprise your full chief ministers. The PM is the chairperson of the authorities’s apex policy assume tank.
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In his prolonged letter, the Telangana CM said that Niti Aayog was started as a original establishment with the goal of bringing the states on the identical web page with the Centre for the equitable growth of the nation in “the factual spirit of cooperative federalism”.
“But newest rotten happenings trust given upward push to an inescapable realisation that the federal construction of India is being systematically eroded by some deliberate actions by the Authorities of India.”
“Pointless to voice, these inclinations are very extraordinary discouraging to trailblasing states cherish Telangana. The blatant discrimination against some states even within the respectable functions assigned to them within the Constitution leaves extraordinary to be desired,” he said within the letter.
KCR said that once the Planning Commission was there, it stale to trust an broad interactive dialogue with the states on the annual belief, but now there is “neither a belief, nor any involvement of states”.
“The rigmarole of Niti Aayog meetings leaves miniature scope for a critical dialogue, as taking part Chief Ministers are given rarely a miniature while to communicate and explicit their views, thereby now not giving any scope to focus on about one thing else in detail,” he added.
The executive minister further said that the Centre’s assume tank had constituted a bunch of chief ministers which advised that in respect of the central sector schemes, states can trust to aloof be given flexibility to originate or modify the schemes in accordance to their needs and stipulations to ensure most merit to the opposite individuals.
KCR also alleged that this form of critical suggestion had been kept apart and, quite the opposite, the Centre was micro-managing the schemes, giving a total bolt-by to voice-utter needs.
He said that Niti Aayog was started with an goal of cooperative federalism but after seven years of its functioning, it is now definite that this utter goal was observed extra in breach.
“The Centre’s actions show that the initiative has long past off target as states are now not incorporated as equal companions within the nationwide growth agenda. States trust now not been co-opted within the preparation of the agenda for Niti Aayog meetings,” he said.
The Telangana CM further said that attributable to “no planning and no spirit of cooperative federalism”, the nation is passing through essentially the most advanced share with unprecedented complications of falling rupee fee, excessive inflation, skyrocketing prices and extending unemployment coupled with low economic growth.
“These factors affect other individuals’s lives and are causing a bunch of ache for the nation. But these are now not discussed in Niti Aayog meetings. I bag the Union Authorities a mute spectator to this emerging serious scenario, on the total resorting to jugglery of phrases having fun with on other individuals’s feelings,” he said in his four-web page letter.
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The executive minister said that India as a nation can originate very top when the states originate, stressing that “tough and economically arresting” states by myself can bag India a sturdy nation.
He also said that the “irresponsible utterances” of some leaders in excessive positions on the use of bulldozers, hit upon killings, and references with religious undertones are disrupting the “communal team spirit and the social fabric of the nation”, besides provocative world criticism.
“But the Union Authorities does now not engage any motion to save so a lot of watch over the topic. Cooperative Federalism, the tenet enshrined within the Indian Constitution, is deliberately omitted, which is evident from the increasing penchant for bringing legislation unilaterally in crit