The Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog, which is going to take place in Delhi on Sunday, will be skipped by the chief minister of Telangana K. Chandrasekhar Rao. This is the seventh meeting of NITI Aayog in the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the meeting.
This would be the first in-person meeting of the Governing Council since July 2019. The chief minister will also stay away from the national committee meeting of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav being held to mark the 75 years of India’s independence, which will be conducted by the prime minister today in Delhi.
Before the Huzurabad Assembly by-poll held in November, KCR last met Modi in September last year in Delhi. Since the TRS lost, the two have not met though Modi was in Hyderabad thrice in February, May, and July. KCR also went to Delhi and stayed for a week at a time but did not meet Narendra Modi.