New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed and felicitated with a thunderous applause amid chants of 'Har Har Mahadev', after the success of Operation
Sindoor and Operation Mahadev, at the NDA Parliamentary Party Meeting. The get-together of the ruling alliance's MPs was held after a considerable gap. At the meeting, a resolution was passed unanimously by NDA MPs on the success of Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev.The resolution covered three points - that reply will be given to terror, swift action from the route where terror emerges and no nuclear blackmail and no differentiating between state sponsoring terrorism and terrorists. Condolences were also given to the family members of the victims of the Pahalgam Terror attack. New MPs were introduced to the Prime Minister. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, while speaking at the meeting, slammed the Opposition narrative on Operation Sindoor, sources said. "Rijiju credited the government for strong defence, the source said. The opposition has been raising the heat over the poll body's alleged partisan conduct favouring the government, and the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor. The crucial meeting comes a couple of days before the filing of nomination for the vice president's election begins on August 7. The NDA will have to announce its candidate, whose election will be a certainty due to the alliance's majority in the electoral college, by August 21, the last date of nomination-filing and the Monsoon session of Parliament. The meeting comes in the middle of the Parliament session which has been all but a washout so far, except for a two-day discussion on the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, due to a united opposition's ceaseless protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar by the Election Commission.
NDA MPs are also expected to discuss candidate for the Vice President post. The electoral college for the vice president poll includes MPs of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha and its current strength is 782. If the opposition also names a candidate, a distinct possibility, then the poll is scheduled to be held on September 9.
Since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, when the BJP lost its majority but comfortably crossed the halfway mark with allies, the sessional meeting of the party's MPs was expanded to include its allies. PM Modi addressed the first such meeting on July 2.
However, no meeting has been held in the last few sessions.
Before the last general elections, PM Modi used to address weekly meetings of the BJP parliamentary party. The meetings have now expanded to include the party's allies such as TDP, JD(U), and LJP (Ram Vilas).
The meeting is attended by MPs of the ruling alliance and PM Modi often covers a sweep of political and governance issues, at times touching on the government agenda in Parliament.
