West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to attend the NITI Aayog meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi next week, an official said on Friday.
She is likely to leave for the national capital on July 25, he said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair NITI Aayog’s ninth Governing Council meeting on July 27.
Banerjee is likely to raise the issue of central dues to the state and funds for rural housing and MGNREGA, at the meeting, the official said.
The Trinamool Congress supremo might also meet party MPs and other senior leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc during her stay in New Delhi.
The Council, the apex body of NITI Aayog, includes all chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories and several Union ministers.
On the other hand, there is an another meeting, which the government has convened on July 21 ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament which will start next Monday, the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry said.
The meeting, which will be held at 11 am on Sunday, has been called by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, the ministry said in a statement.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) said no representatives from the party will attend the meeting as July 21 is observed by the party as Martyrs’ Day.
TMC’s parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’Brien wrote to Rijiju and informed him that his party will not be able to attend the meet.
The July 21 Martyrs’ Day is observed in memory of 13 Congress supporters who were shot dead in firing by the Kolkata Police in 1993 during a march to the state secretariat — Writers Buildings — when the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in power in West Bengal.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was the state Youth Congress chief at that time and she continued to mark the day by holding a rally every year even after forming the TMC on January 1, 1998.
Follow us
