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The meeting of Niti Aayog on Saturday, in which the Prime Minister urged all the states to work together towards the target of a developed India, also saw that some opposition chief ministers raised issues affecting their states, their main complaints boil for sharing of resources. While Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin pushed the Center to share more money with the states, his Punjab counterpart argued that his state had no water to share with Haryana. Mr. Stalin, whose government has been closed in a face-off with the BJP-led Center on a three-language section in the National Education Policy and contacted the Supreme Court claiming to have been asked to the state due to over Rs 2,000 crore to “expand non-discriminatory cooperation for all states”, including Tamil Nadu. Speaking in the 10th Governor Council of NITI Aayog, the DMK chief said, “It is not ideal for states in federal democracy like India to struggle, argue, or make litigation to get money because of them. It hinders the development of both the state and the country.”