The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) central leadership held a meeting with the party's Bihar unit leaders at the party's headquarters in New Delhi. The meeting, which started at 6 pm, comes days after the JD(U) parted ways with it and formed a new government in the state.
What was discussed in the meeting?
- Party deliberated on the BJP's future course of action and the strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
- Organisational changes also came up for discussion in the meeting
- BJP president J P Nadda and senior party leader Amit Shah chaired the meeting. The party's general secretary (organisation) B L Santhosh was also present.
- Union Ministers Ashwini Choubey, Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and the party's senior leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad and Sushil Modi – all of whom are from Bihar – attended the meeting.
- The BJP's Bihar unit president Sanjay Jaiswal, former deputy chief ministers Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, and former minister in the state government Shahnawaz Hussain were present in the meeting.
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This was the first meeting of the state BJP leaders with the central leadership after Kumar snapped ties with it on August 9 and joined hands with the RJD-led alliance, which includes the Congress and the Left. The meeting comes on a day Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expanded his two-member cabinet, which, till now, included Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav besides him. Thirty-one ministers took oath with the RJD getting a lion's share.
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