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Kejriwal Rakes Up Delhi Statehood Issue at NITI Aayog Meeting

Kejriwal also lamented that Delhi was not getting its share in central taxes.

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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday raked up the issue of full statehood to Delhi at the NITI Aayog meeting and also sought the Centre's cooperation in the AAP government's project for natural storage of water in the Yamuna flood plains.

"Delhi be given the status of full statehood, which has been promised since decades but denied by successive central governments," the chief minister was quoted as saying in the meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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