Budget 2024: Upset at Budget, Stalin to boycott PM’s NITI Aayog meet
The Hindu
Budget 2024: Upset with the “boycott” of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said he would not attend the NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting that is scheduled to be convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 27.
Upset with the “boycott” of Tamil Nadu in the Union Budget, Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday said he would not attend the NITI Aayog Governing Council meeting that is scheduled to be convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 27.
Mr. Stalin, who had initially planned to attend the meeting in New Delhi, told journalists: “...I have decided not to take part in the meeting. I will boycott it [the meeting]. It will only be appropriate to boycott a Union government’s meeting as Tamil Nadu was boycotted [in the Union Budget].”
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Mr. Stalin further said that he would continue to fight for the demands and rights of Tamil Nadu in the people’s forum. The DMK has given permission for its MPs to stage a protest in New Delhi on Wednesday.
To a query whether the DMK-led alliance’s victory in all the 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the recent Lok Sabha election was the reason (for the alleged boycott of Tamil Nadu in the Budget), Mr. Stalin said that there was no mention of Tamil or Tamil Nadu in the Union Budget. “They are angry at the people of Tamil Nadu....”
Asked how the Tamil Nadu government would manage in the absence of allocations to the State, Mr. Stalin said: “We will handle it the way we have been handling so far.....”
The Budget, presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, was a “huge disappointment”, he said, adding that the Budget showed that the BJP-led Union government was “unwilling” to do good to the people, who have elected it for the third consecutive term.
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