States stress on cooperative federalism

FROM TAMIL NADU and Telangana in the south to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in the north, chief ministers of opposition-ruled states Saturday used the Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw the Centre's attention to their demands.

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FROM TAMIL NADU and Telangana in the south to Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in the north, chief ministers of opposition-ruled states Saturday used the Niti Aayog meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to draw the Centre's attention to their demands. Three of the nine opposition CMs — West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee, Kerala's Pinarayi Vijayan and Karnataka's Siddaramaiah — stayed away from Saturday's Governing Council meeting. Bihar also missed the meeting.

Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin highlighted his state's developmental strides while raising concerns over the Centre's fiscal policies. Both he and his Telangana counterpart Revanth Reddy stressed on the need to uphold the principles of cooperative federalism for "Viksit Bharat" by 2047.