Ranchi, June 18: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Friday endorsed the proposal of Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold inter-state council meetings thrice a year to seek the opinion of the state governments on policies of national interests.
The Jharkhand chief minister in a tweet expressed his solidarity with his counterpart’s proposal by retweeting M K Stalin’s tweet.
Soren further stated that he concurs with the Tamil Nadu chief minister in this regard. “The idea of cooperative federalism should be practised in spirit by the Union government with active cooperation of all the state governments,” Soren tweeted.
On Thursday, Stalin wrote to the PM requesting to organise at least three meetings of the inter-state council every year. “To strengthen the spirit of cooperative federalism, I strongly suggest that every bill of national importance be placed before the council before it is introduced into Parliament,” wrote Stalin in the letter.
