After returning to India from his foreign visits, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting on Monday with senior Cabinet colleagues and officials and reportedly reviewed the Manipur situation among other things.
The meeting was attended by Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Urban Affairs and Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
Senior officials including P K Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, were also present.
Modi arrived here in the early hours of Monday from State visits to the US and Egypt.
‘What’s happening in India’, Prime Minister Modi asks BJP President Nadda after setting foot on the country’s soil after his six-day visit to the US and Egypt during which several landmark agreements were signed.
He was received at the Delhi airport by Union Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi and BJP chief Nadda. BJP leaders and party MPs from Delhi such as Harsh Vardhan, Hans Raj Hans and Gautam Gambhir were also present.
“He asked Nadda ji how it is going here, and Nadda ji told him that party leaders were reaching out to people with the report card of the nine years of his government, and the country is happy,” BJP MP Manoj Tiwari told reporters when asked what the prime minister asked them after meeting them at the airport.
Speaking to newspersons , BJP MP Parvesh Verma said the prime minister asked what was happening in the country and how was the party’s public outreach programme going on.
A number of senior union ministers have been, for days, addressing press conferences on the ‘milestones’ achieved by the Prime Minister’s foreign visits and how it has raised the status of the country as a global power and also that Modi as a global leader. Union IT and Railway minister Ashwini Vaibhav was the latest minister to mark-out on Monday the ‘achievements’ of the PM’s US and Egyptian visit.
BJP organisation is already reaching-out to the public on the PM’s flagship programmes and the delivery of benefits to poor and deprived sections of the country under its month-long ‘sampark se samarthan’ campaign across the country in the run-up to the Lok Sabha poll, next year.