NDA Meet Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong pitch for the return of the National Democratic Alliance government at the Centre for a third consecutive term and said that the government has won the confidence of the people with its good intent and honest work towards their empowerment. Claiming that the NDA government will return to power in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, the Prime Minister said that the hard work of the NDA constituents will ensure that the alliance will breach the 50 per cent vote share mark in the elections next year, bettering its tally of 45 per cent votes in the 2019 elections. The PM was addressing NDA leaders of 38 parties who had arrived at a meeting of alliance partners called by the Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital on Tuesday.
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The parties included old NDA allies and some new ones with whom the BJP has forged fresh partnerships in the past few days. Taking potshots at the Opposition alliance that met in Bengaluru today, the PM said that India has had a long tradition of political alliances but warned that those based on negativity have never managed to succeed. “NDA was not formed in opposition to any party. It was formed to bring stability to the country. When a country has a stable government, the country makes a bold decision that changes the course of the country,” he said.
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The PM said that India has had a long tradition of political alliances, but any alliance formed with negativity could never be successful. "The Congress used alliances to destabilize the country in the 90s. Congress formed governments and spoiled the governments."
PM Modi pointed out that NDA was not formed in opposition to any party. "It was formed to bring stability to the country. When a country has a stable government, the country makes a bold decision that changes the course of the country," he said.
NDA is committed to the people of the country. Its ideology is Nation First, Security of nation first, Progress First, Empowerment of people first, the Prime Minister said.
PM Modi said that the NDA government has left no stone unturned to empower the people. "As a result, around 13.5 crore people were lifted out of poverty after 2015-16 as per the Niti Aayog report."
"As per a World Bank report, around 40 crore people defeated poverty in a short span of time. As per the IMF, extreme poverty is on the verge of being wiped out from India," he said.
The Prime Minister said that in the last 9 years, the NDA government has made every possible effort to stop all avenues of corruption. "The middlemen who roamed the corridors of power were thrown out. The trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile has prevented the rights of the poor from being snatched away," he said.
Addressing leaders of the NDA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that in his tenure of nine years as PM, he may have erred, but never worked with any ill intentions. "Our only goal in the nation's development. And I can assure each one of you that I will dedicate every breath in the service of the nation."
"I can assure you that in the third term of the NDA will emerge as the world's third-largest economy," PM Modi said addressing NDA leaders in Delhi on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the honest hard work of NDA partners will result in an increase in the vote share of the NDA in the 2024 elections. "I have complete faith in your hard work. In 2014, NDA's vote share was 38 per cent with 125 seats where we polled over 50 per cent votes. In 2019, that vote share increased to 45 per cent as the voters' acknowledged our good work. In 2024, I can assure you that in the 2024 polls, the NDA's vote share will cross 50 per cent," he said.
Taking potshots at the Opposition alliance taking shape, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that people of the country are watching and understanding everything with open eyes. "These parties are sacrificing their principles, values and ideologies for petty selfish gains. The nation knows they cannot be trusted. We can only pray for them," PM Modi said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the NDA meeting in Delhi.
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The meeting of NDA partners got underway in Delhi under the chairmanship of BJP president JP Nadda. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also present at the meeting.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Ashok Hotel in Delhi for the NDA meeting. He was welcomed by BJP president JP Nadda, HAM leader Jitan Ram Manjhi, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, AIADMK leader E Palaniswami and Nagaland CM Nephiu Rio.
Nagaland Chief Minister Nephiu Rio, RPI president Ramdas Athawale, RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha, Apna Dal leader Anupriya Ptel and LJP's Chirag Paswan arrived at the meeting of NDA partners at the Ashok Hotel in Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter to welcome the BJP's allies to the NDA meet. "It is a matter of immense joy that our valued NDA partners from across India will be attending the meeting in Delhi today. Ours is a time tested alliance which seeks to further national progress and fulfil regional aspirations," he said.
Union Home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah arrived at the Ashok Hotel to attend the meeting of NDA leaders. Shah, the former BJP chief, has been key to the BJP's alliances in the past. He has also taken proactive measures to reach out to estranged allies recently as the BJP looks to win back its partners ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and Praful Patel, NCP leader (Ajit Pawar faction) arrive at 'The Ashok Hotel' for the NDA meeting.
Sanjay Nishad, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and Nishad Party founder, arrives at 'The Ashok Hotel' for the NDA meeting.
Ahead of the NDA meeting, a meeting of senior BJP leaders is underway at the residence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Various issues including issues regarding the upcoming session of Parliament are being discussed in the meeting, reports ANI. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi and union ministers Piyush Goyal, Ashwini Vaishnaw and other leaders are also present at the meeting.
Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde today arrived in Delhi to take part in the meeting of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.
"Opposition has still not been able to decide its leader, this is a win for Modi ji. Their agenda is only to level allegations at Modi Ji, but this will only strengthen NDA which will lead to breaking all records in 2024," he said
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s efforts to showcase its partnerships with a meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) comes as a sharp counter to a parallel exercise being undertaken by the Opposition in Bengaluru. The NDA meet, scheduled to begin at 4 PM on Tuesday, will see the BJP court allies – both old and new – as it sets the ball rolling on its campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. Here's the full list of parties attending NDA meet.
''The agenda of the opposition meeting is not the welfare of the people but to remove PM Modi. Around 26 parties have attended the Opposition meeting but we in NDA have around leaders from 38 parties. Our agenda is to make Narendra Modi PM again along with the development of the country. We will win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with more than 350 seats'', Union Minister Dr Ramdas Athawale said.
N Rangaswamy, Puducherry CM and president of All India Namathu Rajiyam Congress (AINRC) arrived in Delhi for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) meeting this afternoon.
He assumed charge in May 2021 after the NR Congress-BJP alliance had secured the majority in Puducherry, winning 16 seats in the 30-member assembly.
The NDA meeting in Delhi coincides with the get-together of 26 Opposition parties which converged in Karnataka's capital Bengaluru for a two-day brainstorming session to devise a strategy to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi unitedly in the Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held in 2024.