BJP will be hosting ‘Diwali Milan’ here on Saturday which would be attended by the top party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah.
It would be one of the rare functions where Prime Minister is expected to interact with scribes freely and have lunch with them thereafter at 9, Ashoka Road, adjacent to the party headquarters. Media persons have been extended invitation by the party to attend the function on November 28,from 1200 hours onwards.
last time Modi had met at the same place after BJP’s tumultuous victory in lok Sabha polls and moved around the venue with reporters jostling with each other to take selfie with him.
Former BJP President Murli Manohar Joshi Monday hosted his customary ‘Diwali Milan’ at his residence which was attended by a large number of journalists.
Joshi along with l K Advani, Yashwant Sinha and Shanta Kumar had recently shot off a letter to Party leadership asking a through investigation into the poll defeat of the party in Bihar polls.. They also charged the leadership with “emasculating” the party “in last one year.”
Barring office secretary Arun Jain, none of the BJP leaders attended the ‘Diwali Milan’ of Joshi. The former BJP Chief refused to take any
political queries from the newspersons.