Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament, Bharatiya Janata Party's Parliamentary Party Executive meeting is set to be held today, sources said. According to them, a separate meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) floor leaders is also expected on the same day. The information comes soon after senior BJP leaders met on Tuesday to deliberate on the party's strategy for the monsoon session of Parliament which begins on July 19.
Sources said the meeting took place at the residence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and was attended by BJP chief JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav, Pralhad Joshi, Arjun Ram Meghwal. Twenty senior BJP leaders attended the meeting.
The monsoon session of parliament is expected to be stormy with the opposition gearing up to attack the BJP-led government on a range of issues including price rise, increasing cost of diesel and petrol and issues related to tackling of COVID-19 pandemic.
Sources stated that the meeting went on for over an hour and discussed the ruling party's strategy for the session, which will be the first after assembly polls in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry earlier this year. The government also has a series of legislations on its agenda in the parliament session which will conclude on August 13.
(With ANI Inputs)
