In the Inter-State Council meeting held inside the President House in New Delhi on Saturday,the Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the nation can progress only when the Union and states walk shoulder to shoulder.

He said,”In democracy as big and diverse as ours, debate, deliberation and discussion help evolve policy that relates to the ground reality. “

The meeting which took place after almost ten years,was participated by Union Ministers such as Raj Nath Singh and Arun Jaitley and Chief Ministers including Chief Ministers, including Delhi’s Arvind Kejariwal,Bihar’s Nitish Kumar and Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das who met the PM and shook hand with him.

*Picture shows CM Raghubar Das meeting the PM Narendra Modi in the Inter-State Council meeting held inside the President House in New Delhi on July 16,2016.