Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre to introspect why the Chief Ministers of 10 States have skipped the NITI Aayog meeting and also why several political parties have stayed away from the inauguration of the new Parliament building.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Government Whips G. Sunitha and G. Balaraju observed that “majority of people of the country were ‘frightened’ to watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi as his dispensation was doing more good to the rich than poor”. Reacting to Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy’s comments, they said he must think over why 10 Chief Ministers stayed away from the NITI Aayog meeting held in New Delhi on Saturday.
The BRS leaders said there was no use to non-BJP States in attending the NITI Aayog meetings as none of their requests and needs were being met. Even funds due to such States as part of the devolution were not being released citing one reason or the other. They demanded that the BJP publish a White Paper on what the BJP government at the Centre did to Telangana during the last nine years in addition to regular devolution of funds.
