New Delhi: Amid the continuing political deadlock on the Land Bill, that is now with the JPC, many states on Wednesday turned the heat on the Centre, making it clear that if a consensus did not emerge on the contentious legislation, then the states should be allowed to amend their respective laws, which could then be approved by the Centre.
The second governing council meeting of the Niti Aayog, presided over by PM Narendra Modi and held mainly to discuss the pending Land Bill, turned out to be a chastising experience for the government as all the nine Congress-ruled states boycotted it, while TN, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal and Delhi voiced objections to several clauses of the legislation.
Chief ministers J. Jayalalithaa of Tamil Nadu, Akhilesh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh, Mamata Banerjee of West Bengal, N. Chandrababu Naidu of Andhra Pradesh and Naveen Patnaik of Orissa also did not attend the meeting.
