Guwahati, August 07, 2023: As part of the preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the NDA MPs from the northeastern region on Monday. The meeting will also be joined by BJP president JP Nadda and Union ministers Sarbananda Sonowal, Kiren Rijiju and Nitin Gadkari.

The NDA MPs from eight states of the northeast – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, and Sikkim – will attend the meeting today.

The Narendra Modi government has given special attention to the northeast. The government has been working to restore peace in Manipur, which has witnessed ethnic violence.

This will be the seventh cluster meeting of NDA MPs with PM Modi.

The sixth meeting was held with NDA MPs from Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir.

The fifth meeting was held with MPs from Bihar, a key state for the BJP-led NDA.

The meeting was attended by Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nityanand Rai and RK Singh and Bhupendra Yadav along with Sushil Modi, Chirag Paswan and Vinod Tawde.

The cluster meetings of NDA MPs with PM Modi began on July 31.

The first meeting was with NDA MPs from West Uttar Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Brij region. PM Modi asked them to strengthen their bonds with the people, inform them of the government schemes, stay humble and focus on the programmes that have an impact at the grassroots level, sources said.

On the same day, PM Modi also met NDA MPs from West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. He said that the 25-year journey of the NDA has been remarkable and the alliance aims to continue it.

“The 25-year journey of the NDA has been remarkable. We have to continue it. The role that the NDA has played is remarkable. Together we will ensure victory in 2024,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, according to a source.

PM Modi is said to have also mentioned that the NDA government has done “remarkable work in infrastructure development” in the last nine years.