File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The 2 leaders met in Delhi a day forward of the Lok Sabha election outcomes.
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The Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) noticed an uptick of political exercise on June 3, a day earlier than outcomes are to be introduced for the Lok Sabha election, with Bihar Chief Minister and NDA ally Nitish Kumar assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and occasion president J.P. Nadda holding a high-level evaluate assembly at his residence. Whereas Mr. Kumar’s assembly with Mr. Modi was mentioned to be a courtesy name for the reason that former had taken ailing throughout Mr. Modi’s nomination course of from Varanasi in Could, at which different NDA companions had been current, sources didn’t rule out the sealing of ministerial berths for Janata Dal-United (JD-U) MPs in any future NDA authorities. Whereas Mr. Kumar was anticipated to fulfill Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah as nicely, the 2 didn’t meet in individual however spoke on the cellphone earlier than Mr. Kumar left New Delhi for Patna. Evaluation assembly“BJP president J.P. Nadda presided over a gathering the place senior Ministers like Rajnath Singh-ji, Amit Shah-ji had been current, in addition to different Ministers and a few [party] basic secretaries. It was largely a few evaluate over how voting went on throughout the seven phases, and in addition reviewing preparations for counting as nicely,” BJP senior basic secretary Vinod Tawde mentioned of the assembly at Mr. Nadda’s dwelling.Former Haryana Chief Minister M.L. Khattar and senior Minister Piyush Goyal had been additionally mentioned to be current on the assembly. The evaluate for counting day, Mr. Tawde mentioned, was over the deployment of sales space and counting brokers, in addition to having BJP office-bearers at hand the place counting might give rise to doubts. Sources conscious of the assembly mentioned that particulars of all BJP candidates had been sought, and State unit presidents throughout the nation had been additionally known as as much as take inputs. “There are States like West Bengal the place we apprehend intimidation by TMC (Trinamool Congress) cadre, and we’ve to arrange our office-bearers to cope with it,” a senior BJP chief mentioned. Exit polls have predicted that the BJP-NDA authorities can be again in energy for a 3rd successive time period.