With BJP president Amit Shah having been elected to the Rajya Sabha this week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned party MPs that their truancy in attending Parliament is at an end.
He made these remarks while addressing MPs at a meeting of the BJP parliamentary party. The party had been left embarrassed in the Rajya Sabha when the Opposition had managed to get an amendment to the OBC Bill passed due to the absence of nearly 31 NDA MPs. Attendance in Parliament has been an issue repeatedly flagged by Prime Minister Modi.
Tough boss
BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya concurred with Mr. Modi’s views saying Mr Shah was a “strict boss” and that “MPs would be on their toes.”
Mr. Modi also felicitated Mr. Shah for completing three years as party president. “It is not easy to run the party when it is in power,” said Mr. Modi about Mr. Shah.
BJP parliamentarians were also asked to take out a Tiranga Yatra from August 9 to 15 and a Sankalp Yatra from August 15 to 30.
Flag march
“You were sceptical about the Tiranga Yatra last year,” the PM told the MPs. “But the response to it left all of you impressed.”
Mr. Shah also spoke at the meeting and told the MPs that Congress leader Ahmed Patel would have lost the keenly contested Rajya Sabha polls if the votes of two Congress MLAs hadn’t been invalidated.
“He managed to win with a margin of 0.41%,” Mr. Shah said.
