Delhi Ordinance Issue: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday saying that he will not be able to attend the NITI Aayog meeting due to the recent ordinance on the transfer of bureaucrats in Delhi. Delhi’s elected government’s control over the bureaucracy has been taken back through an ordinance recently promulgated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government.
Earlier, in a major relief to Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, the Supreme Court had unanimously ruled on May 11 that the Delhi government had legislative and administrative powers over services other than public order, police and land. Have control.
AAP-ruled Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has also decided to boycott the NITI Aayog meeting to be held on Saturday. The Prime Minister is going to chair the eighth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog.
An AAP leader told that Mann has taken this decision in protest against the alleged discrimination with Punjab by the central government on the issue of allocation of funds.
Chief spokesperson of the party’s Punjab unit Malvinder Singh Kang said in Chandigarh that Chief Minister Mann has taken up with the Center the demand of releasing the outstanding Rural Development Fund (RDF) of Rs 3,600 crore, but it (the central government) is not paying any attention to it. Not giving.
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