NDA meeting: BJP chief JP Nadda invites Jitan Ram Manjhi, Chirag Paswan
India TV NewsNDA meeting: BJP chief JP Nadda has invited Hindustani Awam Morcha president Jitan Ram Manjhi and Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan to attend the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance meeting, to be held on July 18 in Delhi. Shiv Sena Shinde faction, NCP faction headed by Ajit Pawar to attend meet A number of new BJP allies, including the Shiv Sena headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, the NCP faction headed by Ajit Pawar, several smaller parties from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and regional parties from the northeastern states, are among those expected to attend the NDA meeting. This is for the first time during the second term of the Modi government that an NDA meeting of this scale is taking place after a number of old and key BJP allies, including Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, Shiromani Akali Dal and the Janata Dal, severed ties with the party over a host of issues. The BJP's outreach to Paswan, son of late stalwart Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan, underscores its push to bring him back into the NDA's fold after he walked out of the alliance in Bihar in the 2020 state assembly polls to campaign against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was then the BJP's biggest ally.