PM Modi to hold a review meeting with top officials on the first 100 days of his third term

PM Modi had told top bureaucracy that their homework for interregnum vacation was to prepare for decisions to be taken in the first 100 days of Modi 3.0.

Updated on: Jun 2, 2024, 09:00:53 IST

By Shishir Gupta

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New Delhi: After a back-breaking election campaign in torrid heat, 45-hour meditation at Vivekananda Memorial and across the board exit polls predicting a massive mandate for his third term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns back to work on Sunday by holding a review meeting with PMO officials.

Before embarking on his mega election campaign, PM Modi had told the top bureaucracy that their homework for the interregnum vacation was to prepare for decisions to be taken in the first 100 days of Modi 3.0. He made it clear to them that all the tough decisions will be made in the first 100 years of his government and he will not wait for the last 100 days before the 2029 elections. Follow Live Updates on Lok Sabha elections 2024

While the bureaucracy has prepared what decisions PM Modi needs to take in the first 100 days, it is also aware that from now on only merit and deliveries will count in appointments to key jobs with the focus on Viksit Bharat vision of the BJP’s tallest leader. In this context, perhaps key changes will be made in August 2024 after the new Cabinet is in position and the Union budget is presented in the first week of July. The first appointments will perhaps be that of Principal Secretary to PM Dr P K Mishra and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, both indispensable to PM Modi for administration and national security-intelligence respectively. Key appointments that need to be done this month are that of new Army Chief and the vital post of Director, Intelligence Bureau.

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Since PM Modi’s Viksit Bharat vision is anchored on “Aatmanirbhar Bharat”, the focus of Modi 3.0 will be development of India’s military-industrial complex with priority on self-reliance and domestic manufacturing. There are strong indications that domestic military-civilian manufacturing will be incentivized and preference will be given to Indian platforms and Indian IPs.

The PMO officials have prepared an agenda for the next 100 days after the swearing in of Modi 3.0 with fine tuning being done on the basis of advice of PM Modi.

Politically, the NDA manifesto will be implemented in toto and diplomatically PM Modi will be by far the most senior and most successful leader of the world’s biggest democracy when he attends the G-7 on June 13.

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Shishir Gupta
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.Read More

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