NEW DELHI: The first meeting of BJP Parliamentary Party in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament and since the elevation of J P Nadda as the party’s working president was held here on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister and BJP national president Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other leaders attended the meeting.
The meeting was presided over by Prime Minister Modi, sources said.
Mr Nadda was felicitated on the occasion by senior party leaders.
This is also the first meeting of BJP Parliamentary Party since four TDP Rajya Sabha MPS joined the saffron party.
Such a meeting earlier scheduled on June 25 was deferred following the death of party’s Rajya Sabha MP and Rajasthan unit chief Madan Lal Saini.
The 75-year-old Saini expired on June 24 at AIIMS in New Delhi due to a lung infection.
(AGENCIES)