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NDA Meet highlights: Parties repose ‘full faith’ in PM Modi's leadership to attain a bigger mandate in 2024
This meeting comes on the day when 26 like-minded opposition parties will meet for the second time in a month to strategise for the upcoming polls.
Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) held a meeting at ‘The Ashoka Hotel’ in New Delhi on Tuesday with 38 political parties participating in it. According to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), among the 38 parties, there are some that have left NDA and rejoined the alliance “to strengthen India” and the saffron party remains committed to its “ideology”. ...Read More
This meeting comes on the day when 26 like-minded opposition parties will meet for the second time in a month to strategise for the upcoming polls. However, only nine parties have 10 seats or more in the 545-member Lok Sabha (the nine account for 479 members) . It is quite likely that at least some of the 26 potential constituents of the opposition grouping, and the 38 of the NDA are not represented in the Lok Sabha; only 37 parties have members in the lower house of Parliament.
Bengaluru opposition meet vs BJP-led NDA's show of strength in Delhi
The second and concluding day of the opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru is set to begin here on Tuesday, with 26 like-minded parties closing ranks with a common aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next year's Lok Sabha polls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, on the other hand, will be holding a meeting of 38 parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the national capital on Tuesday.
The NDA meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meeting of the NDA is being organised to mark the completion of 9 years of the central government under PM Modi.
Meanwhile, the first day of the Opposition party's meeting started with the dinner meeting hosted by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.
(ANI)
BJP eyes grand show of strength of its alliance, 38 parties confirm presence
The BJP is eying a grand show of strength of its alliance on Tuesday with party president J P Nadda asserting that 38 constituents of the ruling NDA have confirmed their participation in the meeting where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be present.
This will be the first such meeting of the BJP-led NDA during the second term of the Modi government and underscores the party's focus on highlighting its ability to make alliances at a time when opposition parties have been meeting to forge unity in the run-up to 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The NDA meeting will see the presence of several new BJP allies like the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar and many of its former partners, such as Chirag Paswan, O P Rajbhar, Upendra Kushwaha and Jitan Ram Manjhi, who have decided to return to its fold.
(PTI)
‘Wind favourable for NDA across India’: Assam Minister
Assam minister & Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) chief Atul Bora, speaking on NDA meet, says, “This will be a very important meeting. Lok Sabha polls are very close...PM Modi, in the last 9 years, has been carrying forward developmental activities with remarkable achievement. So, the wind is favourable for NDA across the country.”
(ANI)
‘Elections just formality now’: Suheldev BSP founder-president
Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party founder-president Om Prakash Rajbhar, speaking before the NDA meeting said on Tuesday, “There is nothing like a fight in the country's politics anymore. If you look at UP, there are 80 seats - where will the Opposition win? All 80 seats will be won by the NDA. I think elections are just a formality now, the opposition can make as much noise as they want - it won't serve any purpose...Our alliance is a national-level alliance.”
Omar Abdullah hits out at BJP after Paswan decides to join NDA
National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah slammed the BJP Monday for raising the dynasty bogey when the sons or daughters of opposition politicians join politics, but maintaining silence in a similar situation with its allies or own leaders.
"Will Nadda ji call him a dynast as well or is that tag only for parties that oppose the BJP?" Abdullah wrote on Twitter after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J P Nadda posted photographs on the microblogging website of his meeting with Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan.
Nadda announced that Paswan has decided to return to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
"I met Chirag Paswanji in Delhi. He has decided to join the NDA alliance under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. I welcome him to the NDA family," the BJP chief said on Twitter and posted photographs of his meeting with Paswan.
(PTI)
BJP invites Jana Sena, skips TDP, YSRCP for NDA meet
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has invited Jana Sena Party, headed by Telugu actor Pawan Kalyan, to the meeting of 38 alliance partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in New Delhi on Tuesday, but has kept away its erstwhile alliance partner Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
Pawan Kalyan, along with his party’s political affairs committee chairman and former state assembly speaker Nadendla Manohar, has left for New Delhi on Monday to attend the NDA allies’ meeting.
“The Jana Sena Party received the invitation from the BJP national leadership a couple of days ago. Our party president, along with Manohar, would attend the meeting, which would be attended by the heads of various NDA allies,” Pawan Kalyan’s political secretary P Hariprasad said.
"Congress used to be against alliance": BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Opposition unity meeting
Amid the two-day joint meeting of the Opposition parties in Bengaluru, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday took a jibe at the Congress party and said that earlier Congress used to be against alliance but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been in favour of them.
Talking to ANI, Naqvi said, "Earlier Congress used to be against alliances but Modi ji has always been in favour of them...That is why NDA continues to grow...Everybody knows that PM Modi has worked for the welfare of all sections of society".
The opposition parties are seeking to put up a united front to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
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Opposition's 26 vs NDA's 38 meet today: Only 9 parties have 10 seats or more in Lok Sabha. Top points
The pitched battle ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections has intensified as the Bharatiya Janata Party has announced that 38 National Democratic Alliance or NDA partners have confirmed their attendance at the meeting to be held in New Delhi on Tuesday, the day 26 like-minded opposition parties will huddle for the second time within a month.
While the key agenda of the opposition parties' Day 2 meeting in Bengaluru will be to deliberate on the issues including EVM machines, Lok Sabha seat sharing, drafting of a common minimum programme as well as deciding on the name of the united front, the BJP is hoping to retain its old allies and get new ones.
Chirag Paswan meets Amit Shah ahead of NDA meet, says ‘talks positive’
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP- Ramvilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Monday met Union home minister Amit Shah at the latter’s residence amid speculations about his induction in the Union Cabinet, the seat-sharing formula in Bihar for 2024 Lok Sabha elections and his estranged ties with union minister Pashupati Paras, who heads the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Parry (RLJP), ahead of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meet on Tuesday.
