Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary board is likely to meet today later in the day. The meeting comes days before the election of the Lok Sabha Speaker which is scheduled for June 19. While earlier in the day, the first session of 17th Lok Sabha begun with Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath as a member of the House.
Since Former Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan did not contest the national polls 2019, BJP MP Maneka Gandhi is among the top contenders for the post. Maneka Gandhi has not been inducted in the Council of Ministers.
Delhi: BJP Parliamentary board likely to meet later today pic.twitter.com/noilC5RgPk
— ANI (@ANI) June 17, 2019
While as the session of Lok Sabha begun today, he swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected MPs will be spread over two days.
Oath to all newly elected MPs will be administrated by the Protem Speaker who was earlier in the day administrated oath by President Ram Nath Kovind.
While the meeting of State In-charges of “BJP Membership Drive” underway at BJP headquarters in Delhi. BJP Party president Amit Shah to address the meeting later today. President of the membership committee, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, senior BJP leader Ramlal, among others were also present in the meeting.
Meeting of State In-charges of "BJP Membership Drive" underway at BJP headquarters in Delhi; Party president Amit Shah to address the meeting later today. President of membership committee, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, & senior BJP leader Ramlal also present. pic.twitter.com/ytzEFEDhJJ
— ANI (@ANI) June 17, 2019
Last week, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reconstituted its Parliamentary Body with PM Narendra Modi as the leader of the party, While Rajnath Singh as Deputy leader of the party (Lok Sabha).
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The party has also appointed Whips in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, While the party has appointed Kailash Vijaywargiya as the Prabhari of BJP Parliamentary Party Office.
As per the Statement by the party, the party has named following Leaders as the Special Invitees (Lok Sabha) – Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Arjun Munda, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, and Jual Oram.
While in Rajya Sabha, the party has named following Leaders Special Invitees – JP Nadda, Om Prakash Mathur, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan and Prakash Javadekar.
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