Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s statement, there is no problem in protesting democratically but Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly said that she does not trust the NITI Aayog, then why is she going to the meeting? She has ruined West Bengal, is interfering in foreign affairs and is trying to make Bengal a Pakistan, Hindus are migrating, demographic change is taking place, Mamata Banerjee is trying to separate West Bengal from the country, we will stop her.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday demanded the scrapping of Niti Aayog, the central government think tank set up under the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2015. Bring back annual plans. “Stop this Niti Aayog. It does nothing except calling meetings. Bring back the Planning Commission,” Banerjee said in the capital a day before attending the Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Asked why she was attending the Niti Aayog meeting unlike some of her alliance partners who have decided to boycott it, Banerjee said there was no need to come and I had cancelled my programme because of their budget. But Abhishek and others convinced me and I also spoke to Hemant (Soren), who is coming.
Referring to Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar’s remarks on North Bengal, he said the problem is of coordination. Every state has its own priorities, but I believe in federalism. The BJP wants to break the country. Their leaders are talking about division. Majumdar had on Wednesday proposed to PM Modi that northern West Bengal, due to its similarities with the Northeast region, be included under the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) to facilitate more development funds for various projects in the region.
