Thiruvananthapuram: All eyes are on the forthcoming NITI Aayog meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as by now four chief ministers have refused to attend it as a mark of protest against the Union Budget.
The chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, and Himachal Pradesh have gone on record saying that they will stay away from the July 27 meeting in the National Capital.
The question doing the rounds in Kerala is whether Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will attend the meeting as he had also criticised the Union Budget.
Soon after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget, CM Vijayan slammed the Centre and said he would not complain about some states getting more, but, he would speak about states like Kerala being ignored.
CM Vijayan said such a thing should not have happened as it puts brakes on Kerala’s future development.
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