Ahead of the NITI
Aayog meeting, Union Home Minister Amit Shah
held separate meetings on Friday with Chief Ministers and Governors of different states.
Among the ministers who called on the Union Home Minister
were Chief Minister
of Goa Pramod Sawant, Chief Minister
of Sikkim Ganga Prasad, Chief Minister
of Assam
Sarbananda Sonowal and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Jagan Mohan Reddy.
The home minister
also met the governors of Goa, Sikkim, Assam, Haryana, Meghalaya and Uttar Pradesh - Mridula Sinha, Ganga Prasad, Jagdish Mukhi, Satyadev Narayan Arya, Tathagata Roy
and Ram Naik, respectively.
The heads of the states are in the national capital to attend the fifth governing council meeting of NITI
Aayog on Saturday.
"I am here to attend the Niti
Aayog meeting tomorrow. We will be representing our case with the Niti Aayog chaired by honourable Prime Minister
Narendra Modi," said Andhra Pradesh
Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy
ahead of the meeting.
"The key issues to be discussed at the fifth governing council meeting are rainwater harvesting, drought situation and its relief measures, aspirational districts programme, transforming agriculture and security issues with a focus on the Left Wing Extremism-affected districts," NITI Aayog said on Friday.