Kolkata, Aug 17 (ANI): Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) today opposed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to scrap the Planning Commission during his Independence Day speech at Red fort in the national capital. Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP, Sudip Bandyopadhyay today questioned the sudden need of doing away with the historic Planning Commission which was institutionalised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose without discussing in the just-concluded session of parliament. He said that the step to dissolve the Planning Commission cannot be a right step and placed his party’s stand of raising this issue in the winter session of parliament.
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