BJP Prez JP Nanda PM Modi to chair NDA Meeting
BJP Prez JP Nanda PM Modi to chair NDA Meeting
It is learnt that ahead of next year’s General Elections, there is going to be a high voltage political show-down next week with the ruling NDA and Opposition parties both flexing numbers.
Even as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) made an announcement of a mega meet in New Delhi on Tuesday, expecting nearly 30 parties to reiterate support to the alliance, 24 Opposition parties will also meet in Bengaluru on Monday and Tuesday to iron out their differences and project a united front against the BJP ahead of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament which starts on July 20.
Reportedly, the NDA meeting will be chaired by BJP President JP Nadda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Other than their alliance partners, the BJP has also invited several new allies and some former ones to the meet at Delhi’s Ashok Hotel on Tuesday evening. Not all parties in the NDA have a presence in the Parliament.
Four leaders from Bihar — Chirag Paswan of the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), Jitan Ram Manjhi of Hindustani Awam Morcha, Upendra Singh Kushwaha of the Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, and Mukesh Sahani of the Vikassheel Insaan Party — have also been sent invite and their parties will be included in the NDA.
Earlier on Sunday, Former Akhilesh Yadav ally Om Prakash Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, announced that he would be re-joining the NDA, and Dara Singh Chauhan, Samajwadi Party MLA from Ghosi in Mau district, yesterday resigned from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly and joined the BJP after meeting Home Minister Amit Shah.
N Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party and the Badal family-helmed Shiromani Akali Dal, after much speculation, will not be part of the NDA. Sources reveal that BJP will not ally with these parties, but, plans to go solo in Punjab and ally with Pawan Kalyan’s JanaSena Party in Andhra Pradesh.
NDA currently boasts of 24 parties — BJP, AIADMK, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction), NPP (National People’s Party), NDPP (Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party), SKM (Sikkim Krantikari Morcha), JJP (Jannayak Janta Party), IMKMK (Indiya Makkal Kalvi Munnetra Kazhgam), AJSU (All Jharkhand Students Union), RPI (Republic Party of India), MNF (Mizo National Front), TMC (Tamil Manila Congress), IPFT (Tripura), BPP (Bodo People’s party), PMK (Patali Makkal Kacchi), MGP (Mahasthravadi Gomantak Party), Apna Dal, AGP (Assam Gana Parishad), Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, Nishad Party, UPPL (United People’s Party Liberal), AIRNC (All India NR Congress Pudduchery), Shiromani Akali Dal Sayunkt (Dhindhsa), and JanaSena (Pawan Kalyan).
Among the entrants to the ruling alliance will be NCP (Nationalist Congress Party Ajit Pawar faction), Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas), HAM (Hindustani Awam Morcha), RLSP (Rashtriya Lok Samta Party), VIP (Vikassheel Insaan Party), and SBSP (Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party Om Prakash Rajbhar).
After weeks of dithering, the Congress came out in support of the Aam Aadmi Party’s campaign against the contentious central order that wrested back control of Delhi’s bureaucracy, boosting the prospects of an opposition meeting set to be held a day later.
BJP Chief JP Nadda writes to Chirag Paswan to be a part of the NDA Meet On July 18.
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