The NITI Aayog’s 9th Governing Council meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, began here on Saturday. The meeting focuses on making India a developed nation by 2047.Notably, chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, along with Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister MK Stalin, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab and Delhi governments, are boycotting the meeting.Meanwhile, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, an alliance partner in the NDA-governed Union government, also skipped the meeting. In his place, the state was represented at the meeting by deputy chief ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha. The cause for Kumar’s absence from the crucial meeting could not be known immediately.
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