PM Modi addresses crucial NDA meeting today afore V-P polls
PM Modi addresses crucial NDA meeting today afore V-P polls
As the NDA braces for the vice-presidential elections, PM Modi takes centre stage to address the coalition’s MPs. Beside the opposition escalating concerns and the Parliament encountering disruptions, this meet will assume significance in the lead up to the crucial nominations.
PM Modi today 5 August will take
centre-stage to address the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parliamentary party meeting. The ruling alliance MPs’ get-together is being held after a considerable gap,
The NDA meeting, chaired by PM Modi will takes place a couple of days ahead of the nominations for the vice president’s election beginning 7 August.
The NDA need to announce its candidate, whose election will be a certainty due to the alliance’s majority in the electoral college, by 21 August, the last date of nomination filing and the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
The meeting also comes in the middle of a session which has been all but a washout so far, except for a two-day discussion on the Pahalgam attack and Operation Sindoor, due to a united Opposition’s ceaseless protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar by the Election Commission.
Amidst the meeting, PM Modi will 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 PM is also likely to be felicitated by the parliamentary party over his government’s military response to the terror strike.
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 9 September.
Sources reveal that Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju and a few BJP national general secretaries are likely to be coordinating with allies for the
vice-presidential poll.
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. Earlier he had addressed the first such meeting on July 2.
However, no meeting has been held in the last few sessions.
Before the last national elections, he addressed the weekly meetings of the BJP parliamentary party, which has now expanded to include party allies such as the TDP, JD(U), and LJP (Ram Vilas).
News Edit KV Raman
