If the state is to develop further and attract significant private investment, protection from deluge, a perennial problem of the state, is a key requirement, Shah said while chairing a meeting here to look into ways to make Assam flood free.
According to Shah's itinerary for October 7, as posted on the microblogging site by his office, the home minister unveiled a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at Rajbhavan in Gangtok.
The Janata Dal-United (JDU) unit of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu has joined BJP in the presence of party president JP Nadda.
Nadda on family parties: Nadda, on a maiden visit to the Congress-ruled state after assuming charge as BJP president, asked party workers to take the messages of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the booth level and apprise people of the works being done under Modi's leadership.
Nadda was addressing the public meeting at Hanamkonda Arts College ground to mark the culmination of the third phase of state BJP chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar's Praja Sangrama Yatra.
BJP President also addressed the second public meeting at Chogan Maidan in Nahan at around 2.30 pm.
BJP top body reshuffle: The Board, headed by the party's national president JP Nadda, will also have Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Bihar Political Crisis: Nitish Kumar's aspirations to become Prime Minister led him to break the alliance with the BJP, alleged Union Minister Giriraj Singh.
Nadda faces protest: The activists, most of them members of the Leftist AISA, shouted "JP Nadda go back" while carrying placards denouncing the National Education Policy (NEP) and demanding grant of central status to Patna University.
Uttarakhand news: Bhatt, a former MLA of Nandaprayag in Chamoli district, replaces Haridwar MLA Mahesh Kaushik as the BJP's state unit chief.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a meeting with chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of BJP-ruled states at the party headquarters in Delhi to deliberate on the developmental work done by them.
Bishnoi served two terms as a Lok Sabha Member and is serving the fourth term as a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from Adampur constituency.
Eknath Shinde was sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister on June 30 with the support of the BJP after he rebelled against the then Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, walking out of the Shiv Sena with a large chunk of MLAs.
In his address during BJP's national executive meeting in Hyderabad, PM Modi said that many parties which have ruled the country for years are on decline and asked the party leader to learn from their mistakes.
Over 300 leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of 14 NDA-ruled states are present at the high level policy meeting.
Devendra Fadnavis arrived in Delhi amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra. He also met JP Nadda to discuss the formation of new government in Maharashtra. Political experts believe that BJP will come to power again with the support of 9-10 Sena leaders from Shinde camp.
Droupadi Murmu said she will request BJD for support in Presidential polls as the daughter of the soil, PTI reported.
Droupadi Murmu (64), a former Jharkhand governor, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post if she is elected, a strong possibility as numbers are stacked in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, BJP president J P Nadda and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, besides Modi, were part of the deliberations at the party headquarters.
The meeting with Naidu is significant as the BJP parliamentary board is meeting later on Tuesday to discuss the BJP-led NDA's choices for the new president.
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