PNS | Hyderabad
The TRS skipped the all-party meeting at the Rashtrapati Bhavan held to solicit suggestions for the G20 summit being held next year.TRS sources said the BJP is politicising the G20 Presidentship which is given as a normal procedure.
“The president is chosen through a system of rotation. Every year, the G20 selects a country from another group to be President.”AP CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, TDP Chief Nara Chandrababu Naidu, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik, Sikkim’s Prem Singh Tamang, and Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde attended the meeting.
The meet was attended by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu’s MK Stalin, BJP President Nadda, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, CPM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and CPI General Secretary D. Raja also.
Those from the government who attended are Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Minister Piyush Goyal.
The AIMIM reportedly skipped the meeting which is yet to be confirmed.India officially assumed the G20 presidency on December 1.The country is expected to host over 200 preparatory meetings across the country beginning this month. The next G20 Leaders’ Summit at the heads of states or government level is scheduled to be held on September 9 and 10 next year in New Delhi.The G20 or Group of 20 is an intergovernmental forum of the world’s major developed and developing economies.
