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NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday responded to a news report saying that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has refused a meeting with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan for the fourth time calling it "highhandedness" and "withering of federalism"."How can a duly elected CM @vijayanpinarayi be denied time by PM. They wanted to discuss imp issue of ration concerning poor people. PM refusing to meet a CM for four times in a row! Unprecedented highhandedness. Wither federalism?" he tweeted.The Delhi CM 's tweet assumes significance as it came a week after Vijayan was one of the four chief ministers who had met Arvind Kejriwal's wife, Sunita Kejriwal, at her residence in Delhi when the AAP leader was staging a dharna at LG Anil Baijal's residence last week.This is not the first time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of tampering with the federal structure of the country by a head of a regional party. In the past, several-BJP CMs have slammed the PM for interfering in the matters of the state.Last week, at the annual general meeting of the Niti Ayog, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu had emerged as the most tough-talking leaders after they raised the contentious issues of the Centre not following the spirit of “cooperative federalism” and “interfering” in matters of the state.Banerjee said that states should be setting the agenda rather than the Centre drawing it up since it is for states to implement them.