New Delhi: The first meeting of the BJP parliamentary party during the ongoing session at the Parliament library concluded on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP Working President Jagat Prakash Nadda & other leaders were present at the meeting.
According to the sources, PM Modi has cracked whips on BJP MLA Akash Vijayvargiya who was arrested for allegedly assaulting a civic body official supervising a demolition drive in Indore. He was later granted bail.
It was the first time in many decades that BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi was were not present in the BJP meeting as the party did not field them in Lok Sabha polls on the ground of 75-year age bar it introduced for its candidates.
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