Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the first two of his series of meetings with groups of NDA MPs, said the MPs should spend as much time as possible in their constituencies with a positive message about the NDA government’s work, and that while the Opposition alliance might have changed its name from the UPA to INDIA, the “taint of corruption and misgovernance” would not be washed off.
NDA MPs have been divided into 10 region-wise clusters of 30-45 MPs and will be meeting with Mr. Modi throughout the Monsoon Session of Parliament. On Monday, the Prime Minister met with two of these clusters, 44 NDA MPs from western Uttar Pradesh and Kanpur and Bundelkhand, and around 30 MPs from West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand. “The NDA government has been serving the people and MPs must spend as much time as possible in their areas to bring the message home,” Mr. Modi is reported to have told the MPs.
According to the sources, the Prime Minister said that the Opposition alliance would not be able to wash off its “sins of corruption and misgovernance” by changing its name. Sources had earlier revealed that the BJP, in its referencing of the Opposition alliance against it would be mentioning the name “UPA” as well, to “remind people of the chequered record of that government,” said a senior source in the BJP.
