2024 Polls, Vikshit Bharat Mission, Reaching Out To Poor: What PM Modi Discussed With BJP CMs

After an exhaustive day and a half of the BJP National Council, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP National President JP Nada and Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with chief ministers and deputy chief ministers from party-ruled states.

During the meeting, which went on for nearly three hours, an intensive discussion took place on the further need to have an exhaustive approach to reach out to the beneficiaries of the central government schemes.

The BJP-ruled Centre has undertaken the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra throughout the country which has seen huge participation from the public, especially women being added to the list of beneficiaries.

During the meeting, various state party units also told the central leadership about the new initiatives and best practices that have reaped results for them.

“During the meeting, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha spoke about the new mobile app launched by the state for sharing feedback and grievance redressal,” A source told Network 18.

Apart from this, feedback was also taken from the chief ministers about the “Gaon Chalo” initiative that has been launched by the saffron party to go to the villages to understand their difficulties and to help in providing a positive solution to the people of those regions.

“For most of the meeting, the prime minister was very carefully listening to what the state chief minister had to say,” another source said.

The prime minister reiterated that the NDA alliance will get over 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, an announcement that he made from the floor of the Parliament during the budget session.

The state chief minister has also apprised the central leadership about their feedback on the ground and the political equation in their states. “All the chief ministers present in the meeting told the prime minister and the other central leaders that they would leave no stone unturned to achieve that landmark figure,” sources said.

The chief ministers’ council is a meeting that the prime minister holds from time to time with the state heads. Former Rajya Sabha MP Dr Vinay Sahastrabuddhe was the convenor of this meeting. This time a couple of new faces, including the chief ministers of the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, joined this meeting.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar could not attend the meeting since he was in Chandigarh for a meeting of the farmers’ leaders with the central ministers. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh was also unable to attend the council meeting due to the ongoing violence situation in the state.

The meeting saw the presence of BJP-ruled state chief ministers Bhajan Lal Sharma, Mohan Yadav, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Yogi Adityanath, and Pushkar Singh Dhami among others. Deputy chief ministers from the NDA states including Devendra Fadanvis from Maharashtra and YV Patton from Nagaland were also present. At present, the BJP has its chief minister in 6 out of 8 northeastern states.