NDA leaders to meet today
   Date :21-May-2019

 
NEW DELHI:
 
The BJP’s decision to host the dinner comes following the exit polls which have been unanimous in projecting another term for Modi 
 
WITH exit polls forecasting NDA’s return to power, top leaders of the BJP-led alliance will meet on Tuesday over dinner to be hosted by party President Amit Shah where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to be present, party sources said on Monday. Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and Lok Janshakti Party head Ram Vilas Paswan are likely to attend the meeting, which will take place two days before the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha polls on May 23. Leaders of the NDA in Tamil Nadu, including Chief Minister K Palaniswami, will attend the dinner meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday.
 
A meeting of key BJP leaders, including Union Ministers and Modi, is also scheduled to be held in the party headquarters before the dinner meeting with allies. The BJP’s decision to host the dinner comes following the exit polls which have been unanimous in projecting another term for Modi. Modi and Shah at a press conference on May 17 had exuded confidence that the BJP-led alliance will return to power, and exit polls have furthered boosted their hopes.
 
Exit polls telecast by almost all major new channels have forecast that the BJP-led NDA will cross the majority mark of 272 in the 543-member Lok Sabha. Polls have been held for 542 seats as the Election Commission had deferred the election for Vellore seat due to allegations of the use of money to influence the voting. Several BJP leaders asserted on Monday that the party will get a majority on its own, repeating the unprecedented feat it achieved in 2014 by winning 282 seats.
 
BJP gears up for big day
 
NEW DELHI
 
BUOYED by exit poll predictions, the BJP has started preparation to celebrate Lok Sabha election results on May 23 in a big way at the party headquarters here. Most exit polls on Sunday forecast another term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with some of them projecting that BJP-led NDA will get more than 300 seats to comfortably cross the majority mark of 272 in the Lok Sabha. Party workers at the BJP headquarters Monday were enthused and confident of the massive victory right from the beginning of the polls.
 
While several workers had been given offs on Monday because they had been slogging tirelessly during the seven-phase general election, preparations were in full swing for May 23, when the results will be announced, a BJP worker said. The party workers were busy overseeing the preparations for the D-Day and said the exit polls had underlined what they were always confident about. The BJP has a tradition of making arrangements for media on the result day. It provides a separate cabin to every news channel. The tent work is going on in the BJP headquarters with more than 30 cabins to be built inside there.