The Forum for Good Governance has requested Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao to attend the meeting of the NITI Aayog slated on Saturday for mentioning the grievances of the State and try to get them resolved.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Minister, Forum secretary M. Padmanabha Reddy lamented over the reports that the CM was unlikely to attend the NITI Aayog meeting. Mr. Rao was not attending NITI Aayog meetings for the last couple of years.
The State government could have differences with the Union government, but NITI Aayog was one of the platforms to address the grievances. Continuously boycotting the NITI Aayog would not augur well for the people of the State. “Civil societies have a reason to believe that personal ego was over and above the interests of the State,” he said.
Mr. Reddy said that there would be many political parties in a democracy with different ideologies, but they would follow the Constitution when it came to governance. Though they were autonomous in the fields allotted to them, States were not independent in the country and they were still dependent on the Union government for several purposes.
In view of this, KCR should attend the NITI Aayog meeting and mention the grievances of the State.
