Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday chaired a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers at the newly built convention centre at the Pragati Maidan, which will host the G20 summit in September.
At the meet PM Modi said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government ‘had done lot of development in 9 years’ and asked the Council of Ministers to ‘reach out to people in next 9 months’.
“A fruitful meeting with the Council of Ministers, where we exchanged views on diverse policy related issues,” Modi tweeted.
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Further people familiar with the event and its proceedings informed news agency PTI, that a presentation on India’s likely development journey till 2047 was also made at the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by PM Modi on Monday.
In the Council of Ministers meeting, some ministries generally give a presentation about their work, with the prime minister sharing his views.
The meeting has come amid a heightened buzz about a likely Cabinet reshuffle following a series of meetings of the ruling BJP’s top brass.
What has added to the reshuffle buzz is that the period before Parliament’s Monsoon Session, which begins from July 20, could be the last window for such an exercise.
The government is preparing agenda for the monsoon session of Parliament which is set to begin on July 20. The opposition is likely to raise the issue of UCC to corner the government.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BL Santosh and BJP’s National President JP Nadda last week. The BJP, for the first time, will hold region-wise meetings of the three zones- the eastern, northern and southern – on 6, 7, and 8 July.
The BJP is gearing up for assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram to be held later this year as well for the Lok Sabha elections.