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Aug 5, 2025: On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over a meeting of MPs from the National Democratic Alliance, which has sparked a lot of speculation about what the BJP-led government wants. After Modi was sworn in as the leader of the NDA alliance and prime minister for the third time in a row, the last major NDA parliamentary party meeting was held on July 2, 2024. Although subsequently NDA members were called sometimes for the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting conventionally scheduled for every Tuesday, the practice has become more irregular than regular in the recent past.
Tuesday's meeting of alliance MPs is significant because it falls on the sixth anniversary of Article 370's cancellation. On Monday, top security brass of the country met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his Parliament office.
Shah was contacted by Ajit Doval, the National Security Adviser, Govind Mohan, the Union Home Secretary, and Tapan Deka, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau. Members of the NDA will meet today amid a significant offensive by the opposition over the special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Bihar, Congress' ongoing questioning of US President Donald Trump's claims regarding Operation Sindoor, and his orders to impose 25% reciprocal tariffs on India. The meeting will also be the first major show of NDA’s strength on the eve of Bihar polls.
A notice from the BJP today said, “A meeting of the NDA Parliamentary party will be held at 9.30 AM on Tuesday, the 5th of August, in the GMC Balayogi Auditorium of the Parliamentary Library Building. All NDA members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha are requested to attend.”
Given the significance of August 5 in PM Modi's scheme of things, political circles view the meeting as significant. It was on August 5, 2019, that the BJP led government abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated Jammu and Kashmir state into UTs of J&K and Ladakh. Then on August 5, 2020, PM Modi led the ground breaking ceremony at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.
Thus, on August 5, the BJP fulfilled two important and long-standing ideological promises. After PM Modi met with President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday and Union Home Minister Amit Shah called on Murmu, rumors that the government was planning something big have grown. S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs, met with PM Modi. JP Nadda, Piyush Goyal, and Kiren Rijiju were among the colleagues that Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met.