“NITI Aayog should be scrapped and Planning Commission should be brought back. Thought it’s my duty to raise our voice on common platform even though I know NITI Aayog has no financial power,” Mamata Banerjee said, adding, “Will protest discriminatory budget proposals, stage walkout from NITI Aayog meeting if needed.”
#WATCH | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee arrives at the residence of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to meet his wife Sunita Kejriwal and his parents.AAP MP Raghav Chadha was also present.
(Video: Delhi CMO) pic.twitter.com/8NpbjdffEe
— ANI (@ANI) July 26, 2024
The Bengal chief minister said, “This budget is absolutely ‘politically biased‘; they have deprived all non-NDA ruled states.”
In another post in Hindi, the AAP said, “INDIA is united against the dictatorship. West Bengal Chief Minister (@MamataOfficial) reached Delhi Chief Minister’s @ArvindKejriwal residence to meet his family. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife @KejriwalSunita welcomed Mamata Banerjee.”
Arvind Kejriwal, who is also the AAP national convener, was arrested by ED on March 21 in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The Supreme Court has granted him interim bail but he is still in jail as the CBI had arrested him in a related matter.
A day earlier, July 25, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Harbhajan Singh had met Sunita Kejriwal at her residence in New Delhi. “Met Sunita Kejriwal wife of Delhi’s Hon’ble CM Arvind Kejriwal. Had a very long and fruitful discussion with Sunita ji. We all stand in solidarity with Arvindji and AAP. Jai Hind,” he posted on X.