New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took stock of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s performance in the Lok Sabha elections and provided the party’s chief ministers and deputy chief ministers with a roadmap for the upcoming state assembly elections at the ‘Mukyamantri Parishad’ or chief ministers’ meet at the party headquarters. Modi met chief ministers of 13 states.
Home Minister Amit Shah, party national president JP Nadda and deputy chief ministers of other states ruled by the party’s allies, including Maharashtra and Bihar, were also present.
Significance of the conference
The meeting will be significant as it will discuss how the party, which had won a majority in the 2014 and 2019 elections, has slipped to 240 seats from its target of 370. Intensifying and manifesting differences within the party after the loss of majority and tussles with allies over future seat realignments in view of the upcoming state assembly elections in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Haryana and Delhi are two issues the party is urgently trying to resolve.
It is well known that after the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has come to depend on the Janata Dal (United) and the Telugu Desam Party to continue in power. It reciprocated their support through a special package announced in the Union Budget on July 23. However, the opposition has turned this into a major political weapon, accusing the BJP of discriminating and ignoring other states.
The Prime Minister has reportedly conveyed to his party’s Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers that there is a need to widely inform them that various schemes were announced in the Budget that covered all states.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also defended the omission of all states’ names in the Budget, saying it was not always possible.
About Mucamanti Parish Council
The Mukhyamanthi Parishad meeting, held to review flagship schemes of states and discuss implementation of central government schemes, is being held in the backdrop of smoldering differences between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, and hence the two-day meeting is expected to provide guidance to workers and leaders on how to minimise friction.
The CMs who attended the meeting today included Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh, Himanta Biswa Sarma of Assam, Bhajanlal Sharma of Rajasthan, Mohan Charan Majhi of Odisha, Mohan Yadav of Madhya Pradesh, Pushkar Singh Dhami of Uttarakhand, Pema Khandu of Arunachal Pradesh and Pramod Sawant of Goa, Bhupendra Bhai Patel of Gujarat, Nayab Singh Saini of Haryana, N. Biren Singh of Manipur, Manik Saha of Tripura and Vishnu Deo Sai of Chhattisgarh.
The meeting was attended by party vice-chief ministers of all these states, including Maharashtra’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Padvanis, Nagaland’s Y Patton and Bihar’s Samrat Choudhury and Vijay Kumar Sinha.
Published: Sunday, July 28, 2024 10:49 AM IST
