NEW DELHI: Chief ministers across the country seemed to have taken Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's dictum of cooperative federalism to heart.What else can explain the fact that two out of three task forces announced by the Niti Aayog, two of them for flagship programmes of the government, the Swachh Bharat abhiyaan and Skill India initiative are being headed by chief ministers from the opposition.The three taskforces, the first for Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) is headed by Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the second for Skill Development is headed by Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar (Tripura has a Left government) and finally, one of Swachh Bharat is to be headed by Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah According to sources in Niti Aayog, the choice of chiefs of taskforces was left to chief ministers themselves.“The chief ministers were asked to discuss and elect from among themselves chiefs of these task forces according to their area of interest,“ said a source in the Aayog. This makes the choices even more ironic.While Madhya Pradesh was long at the forefront of blocking the Goods and Services Tax (GST) during the UPA regime, its chief minister now has to assess not just the new devolution of funds under 14th Finance Commission, but also which central schemes are to be toned down, which are to be given a boost.Sarkar's brief is to make sure the Skill India initiatives to train India's labour force are carried, backed by a government planning to redo some of India's labour laws.Most ironically, Siddaramaiah of the Congress has taken on Swachh Bharat, when his colleague in the Congress, former Union minister Shashi Tharoor was dragged willy nilly into first endorsing and then distancing himself from it after a party outcry about it.Siddaramaiah, sources in Karnataka Congress say, may have been attracted by the fact that one of the most pressing problems of Bengaluru happens to be garbage disposal.He has, perhaps as a result of his assuming chairmanship of this task force, announced in his recent state budget that every rural household will have a toilet, and a `bathroom-cum-toilet' under the Grameen Gourava scheme.