Cong CMs, Mamata Banerjee to skip PM's meet on land bill

Just ahead of the crucial Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Congress is clearly posturing itself against the Narendra Modi government.

Sources have told that all Congress Chief Ministers have decided to skip the Niti Aayog meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Modi has convened the meeting to discuss the Land Acquisition Bill, which the Centre has struggled to pass in the Rajya Sabha.

The bill is currently with a Parliamentary standing committee.

This comes after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee communicated to the Prime Minister that she too would skip the meeting in opposition to the bill.

In the last session of Parliament, the opposition was united behind the Congress against the land bill calling it anti-farmer.