PM Modi chairs BJP Chief Minister council's meet, Tripura CM, Dy CM attend
New Delhi, Jul 24, 2022, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT/ TT
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha and Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma Sunday attended a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at BJP headquarters here.
The agenda of the meeting of CMs and Deputy CMs of BJP-ruled states was to deliberate on the developmental work done by them.
It assumes significance in the light of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, for which the saffron party is already gearing up.
The meeting was also attended by the BJP president, JP Nadda, its senior leader and Union Minister Bhupender Yadav and Vinay Sahsrabuddhe, who heads the party's good governance cell.
Chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of 18 states where the BJP is in power on its own or in alliance with other parties held deliberations on achieving a 100 per cent target of all centrally sponsored welfare schemes and flagship programmes, sources said.
Besides Saha, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma attended the meeting.
Nagaland Chief Minister Nephio Rio, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha were also present.
Several deputy chief ministers including Maharashtra's Devendra Fadnavis and Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi from Bihar attended the meeting.