NDA Meet highlights: Parties repose ‘full faith’ in PM Modi's leadership to attain a bigger mandate in 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being garlanded by NDA leaders before the meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), in New Delhi, Tuesday.

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”. 

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.