Ms Banerjee additionally referred to as for the scrapping of the Niti Aayog and a return to the Planning Fee.
New Delhi:
Deviating from the stand taken by her counterparts belonging to different events within the INDIA alliance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has mentioned she’s going to attend the Niti Aayog common council assembly on Saturday as a result of it’s within the curiosity of her state, including that she’s going to elevate the problems of all opposition-ruled states.
The Niti Aayog common council assembly is among the few boards the place state chief ministers get to satisfy not simply the Prime Minister, who presides over the gathering, but additionally Union ministers.
The Trinamool Congress chief arrived in Delhi on Friday amid hypothesis about her cancelling her go to and skipping the Niti Aayog assembly according to chief ministers of Congress-ruled states and others like Punjab’s Bhagwant Mann, Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan and Tamil Nadu’s MK Stalin.
Stating that she had cancelled, however reconsidered on the recommendation of senior Trinamool Congress chief Abhishek Banerjee, who can also be her nephew, the Bengal chief minister mentioned the Union Finances had been openly politicised.
“They are saying the Finances exhibits cooperative federalism, however it’s biased politicisation. The Finances is whole deprivation of states. You can provide some particular package deal to your folks however you possibly can’t deprive opposition states fully,” she asserted, including that states need to be empowered.
“Centre ought to solely have exterior affairs, defence and inner safety. Finance (is one thing) they’ve destroyed,” she claimed.
‘Scrap Niti Aayog’
Ms Banerjee mentioned that, throughout the assembly, she would elevate the difficulty of West Bengal “not getting something” within the Finances in addition to the Rs 1.71 lakh crore her authorities claims the Centre owes the state. She additionally mentioned it was time the Niti Aayog was scrapped and the Planning Fee was introduced again.
“It (Niti Aayog) has no monetary implications… The Planning Fee had labored nicely for India since Independence. It was mooted by Subhash Chandra Bose,” she mentioned.
On being requested if she was a part of the opposition INDIA bloc, she mentioned she was on the nationwide stage however the alliance was not wanted within the state. “Trinamool Congress is sufficient to combat the BJP in West Bengal. Nationally, we’re with INDIA,” she mentioned.
Within the Lok Sabha elections, she mentioned the Congress had gained in states the place regional events are sturdy and credit score needs to be given to each. She additionally predicted that, within the upcoming Meeting elections, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction, which is an INDIA ally, will win in Maharashtra, Congress will emerge victorious in Haryana and Hemant Soren of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha would stay the Jharkhand chief minister.
On Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who’s in jail within the liquor coverage case, she mentioned she was very involved about him and others “focused” by the BJP-ruled authorities on the Centre. “Solely businesses and conspiracies can’t offer you political outcomes,” she mentioned.
Ms Banerjee additionally met Mr Kejriwal’s spouse, Sunita, on Friday night.
