“When the reasons proffered by Chief Minister Stalin for boycotting the Niti Ayog meetings in the past remain the same, what has prompted him to make a somersault?" he asked.
During the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai presented a visionary plan to transform Chhattisgarh into a Rs 75 lakh crore economy by the year 2047.
Claiming that Chief Minister Banerjee was given her allotted time, Subrahmanyam said the Bengal CM left after conveying that she wanted to speak more.
The Prime Minister asked the State Chief Ministers that steps be taken to strengthen districts which are quite large in many States, while the States are also quite large in some cases.
Ms Banerjee claimed that she was stopped from speaking during the NITI Ayog meeting and her mic was switched off.
"This is an insult, and I will not attend any further meetings," said Banerjee, the only Opposition Chief Minister to attend the meeting amid the boycott called by the INDIA bloc CMs.
Kerala Chief Minister and CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, and the Congress Chief Ministers of Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, and Telangana were the notable absentees from the meeting.
