New Delhi, Mar 23: All eyes will be on BJP Parliamentary Party meeting here on Friday which will
be addressed among others by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The dinner meeting at new BJP headquarters will come days
after chairperson of Congress Parliamentary
Party Sonia Gandhi hosted a dinner for leaders of 19 non-NDA parties.
BJP chief Amit Shah will also grace the meeting, which will be presided over by Mr Modi.
"Our party MPs will be shown the new party headquarters. This will be the first such grand meeting," BJP spokesman Anil Baluni said.
All Union Ministers and Members of Parliament of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been asked to attend the meeting.
Convening of such a meeting of BJP Parliamentary Party assumes significance as normally, the party MPs used to meet during the session - either weekly or fortnightly - in morning Hours in the Parliament premises only.
In April 2017, 32 allies of BJP and constituents of NDA had attended Prime Minister Modi's dinner meet where
essentially the NDA leaders had formed broad strategies for Presidential elections.
The meeting also comes close on the heels, BJP winning polls in Tripura and forming coalition governments in Meghalaya and Nagaland. But most striking of all, the BJP also lost a few crucial bypolls to Lok Sabha including politically-sensitive Goraphpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, Araria in Bihar and also Ajmer in Rajasthan.
There are also changes in political equations as 16-MP strong TDP has walked out of NDA and BJP's own tally
in Lok Sabha has nosedived to 274 from what was 282 in 2014 May.
Even other parties like Shiv Sena have been showing displeasure at the functioning style of BJP leadership towards the alliance partners and LJP leader and Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has counseled BJP leadership that they must ensure better coordination among NDA partners.
The BJP MPs meet would also come at a time when key regional players like Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool) and K Chandrashelhar Rao (TRS) have made a strong pitch for floating of a front of regional parties.
However, Mr Shah in a television interview asserted that TDP's decision to quit NDA will affect the alliance.
"If TDP has already decided to leave NDA what we have to say," he has said and maintained that as the chief anchor of the ruling front, the BJP never wanted anybody to walk out from the NDA. He dismissed notions that TDP quitting NDA has brought in an atmosphere of negativity against the saffron party-led alliance. UNI
Party Sonia Gandhi hosted a dinner for leaders of 19 non-NDA parties.
BJP chief Amit Shah will also grace the meeting, which will be presided over by Mr Modi.
"Our party MPs will be shown the new party headquarters. This will be the first such grand meeting," BJP spokesman Anil Baluni said.
All Union Ministers and Members of Parliament of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have been asked to attend the meeting.
Convening of such a meeting of BJP Parliamentary Party assumes significance as normally, the party MPs used to meet during the session - either weekly or fortnightly - in morning Hours in the Parliament premises only.
In April 2017, 32 allies of BJP and constituents of NDA had attended Prime Minister Modi's dinner meet where
essentially the NDA leaders had formed broad strategies for Presidential elections.
The meeting also comes close on the heels, BJP winning polls in Tripura and forming coalition governments in Meghalaya and Nagaland. But most striking of all, the BJP also lost a few crucial bypolls to Lok Sabha including politically-sensitive Goraphpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh, Araria in Bihar and also Ajmer in Rajasthan.
There are also changes in political equations as 16-MP strong TDP has walked out of NDA and BJP's own tally
in Lok Sabha has nosedived to 274 from what was 282 in 2014 May.
Even other parties like Shiv Sena have been showing displeasure at the functioning style of BJP leadership towards the alliance partners and LJP leader and Union Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has counseled BJP leadership that they must ensure better coordination among NDA partners.
The BJP MPs meet would also come at a time when key regional players like Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool) and K Chandrashelhar Rao (TRS) have made a strong pitch for floating of a front of regional parties.
However, Mr Shah in a television interview asserted that TDP's decision to quit NDA will affect the alliance.
"If TDP has already decided to leave NDA what we have to say," he has said and maintained that as the chief anchor of the ruling front, the BJP never wanted anybody to walk out from the NDA. He dismissed notions that TDP quitting NDA has brought in an atmosphere of negativity against the saffron party-led alliance. UNI
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