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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah held consultations till late on Monday with chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of all BJP-ruled States.
Besides the PM and the BJP President, three top Central leaders – Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman – were also present in the meeting.
Chief ministers including Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh, Sarbananda Sonowal of Assam, Vasundhara Raje of Rajasthan, Manohar Lal Khattar of Haryana, Vijay Rupani of Gujarat, Trivendra Singh Rawat of Uttarakhand, Devendra Fadnavis of Maharashtra, Raman Singh of Chhattisgarh, Virendra Singh of Manipur, Manohar Parrikar of Goa and Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh arrived at the BJP headquarters on Monday evening for the meeting.
Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi, Jammu and Kashmir Deputy CM Nirmal Singh and Gujarat Deputy CM Nitin Patel were also present in the meeting.
This will be Prime Minister Modi’s third meeting with the chief ministers after the BJP swept to power in 2014, but the first such exercise since the party formed a government in Bihar by joining hands with the JD(U).
The meeting was called days after Shah met party leaders in New Delhi to discuss the strategy for 2019 elections. During the meeting, which was attended by eight Union Ministers, the BJP chief had set a target of 350-plus seats for BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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