BJP Parliamentary Party Meet: PM Directs MPs To Focus On Constituencies, Animal Welfare

The BJP party meeting was held in the Parliament Library Building, with PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders of the party in attendance.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi who chaired Bharatiya Janata Party's parliamentary party meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday directed MPs to focus on working in line with development in their respective constituencies. PM Modi also asked the MPs to focus on animal welfare, take roster duties seriously, work for the constituency by employing some creative ways, and work on humanitarian issues with an underlying objective. The BJP party meeting was held in the Parliament Library Building, with PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and other senior leaders of the party in attendance.

Delhi: BJP Parliamentary Party meeting underway at Parliament Library Building. pic.twitter.com/1lsbRL4g2U

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar, and Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan were among the early leaders to arrive for the meeting. On 14 July, BJP had issued a notice to its Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs informing them about the meeting and asked them to ensure attendance. The meeting comes ahead of the beginning of day's proceedings in the ongoing Monsoon Session of the Parliament. Modi, who has launched the Jal Abhiyan in the backdrop of the worst water crisis in the country, has also reportedly asked the lawmakers to sit with officials and lend an ear to the people's issues related to water shortage. The Prime Minister also urged the lawmakers to work on war footing to tackle diseases such as Tuberculosis.