New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parliamentary party meeting
on Tuesday, August 5. 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. The get-together of the ruling alliance's MPs is being held after a considerable gap, reported PTI. 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, now expanded to include the party's allies such as TDP, JD(U), and LJP (Ram Vilas). He often offers the MPs talking points to be raised in public, especially in their constituencies.
VP Election, Monsoon Session: What's On Agenda?
Notably, Prime Minister Modi's meeting with the NDA parliamentary party comes in the middle of the ongoing Monsoon Session. The session has been a washout so far, except for a two-day discussion on the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor.
The Parliament's Monsoon Session has witnessed united opposition's ceaseless protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in Bihar by the Election Commission.
PM Modi is expected to speak on a host of current issues as 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 prime minister is also likely to be felicitated by the parliamentary party over his government's military response to the terror strike, the report said.
The NDA parliamentary party meeting comes just before the the filing of nomination for the vice president's election. The nomination filing process will begin on August 7 and the NDA will have to announce its candidate by August 21, the last date of nomination-filing and the Monsoon session of Parliament.
The NDA candidate's elections seems certain due to the alliance's majority in the electoral college. 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. Sources said Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and a few BJP national general secretaries are likely to be coordinating with allies for the vice presidential poll.
(With PTI inputs)
