BJP president J P Nadda set the tone for the two day National Executive meet of the party in Hyderabad by taking on opposition parties especially dynastic ones, who, he said, had “for the purpose of opposing Prime Minister Modi had begun opposing the nation” even as the people of the country have continued to repose faith in both Prime Minister Modi and the BJP. He said this on a day when Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao skipped, for the third time in a row, receiving Prime Minister Modi at the airport as he landed in Hyderabad, a violation, BJP said, of “constitutional propriety and federal protocol.”
Union Minister Smriti Irani, briefing the media on Mr Nadda’s closed door address to the party’s national executive said that the party president had flagged the “obstruction and destruction” of the opposition parties over every programme and policy of the government that was aimed at the welfare of the people and reforms.