Last Updated: February 17, 2024, 12:04 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by BJP President J P Nadda as he arrives to attend the BJP National Council meeting.
BJP National Council Meet: The meeting will be attended by nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country
Bharatiya Janata Party’s two-day National Council meeting, which aims at outlining a robust political campaign for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, began on Saturday in New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The meeting will be attended by nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country.
The National Council will be inaugurated by PM Modi along with BJP National Chief JP Nadda, who will address the delegates today. Prime Minister Modi also visited the exhibition at Bharat Mandapam.
PM Modi will on Sunday deliver the valedictory address, a speech that is likely to draw the broader contours of the party’s campaign and exhort its members to go all out to achieve his target for the party to win 370 seats in the elections.
BJP National Council Meet: Here Are Top Updates of The Day
- The BJP National Council Meet will be attended by nearly 11,500 BJP delegates drawn from across the country.
- From its elected panchayat heads to district presidents and Union ministers, the BJP’s ‘national council’ meeting is going to be the ruling party’s biggest organisational get-together.
- The meeting, scheduled to start in the afternoon, will be inaugurated by BJP National President JP Nadda.
- The Council meeting will be preceded by a meeting of the party’s national office-bearers.
- Senior party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has said two resolutions are likely to be passed by the council.
- Union Minister Amit Shah welcomed BJP President JP Nadda as he arrived to attend the BJP National Council meeting at Bharat Mandapam.
In the national council meetings held in the last 10 years, including the two organised in the national capital weeks before the 2014 and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the attendance had generally remained around 3,000.
The recent white paper on the economy tabled in Parliament by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, the perceived disarray in the opposition INDIA bloc, the successful G20 Summit in 2023, and the country’s global standing are among the issues that are likely to figure in the speeches of key BJP leaders at the meeting and in the resolutions.