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‘What’s happening in India’, PM Modi asks BJP chief Nadda after returning from foreign visit

 PM Modi with Eqyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi during their meeting in Cairo. (Twitter/@PMOIndia) After returning to India from his foreign visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked BJP president J P Nadda and other leaders what was happening in India, party leaders, who had gone to receive him at the airport here, said. Modi returned to India in the early hours of Monday after his six-day visit to the US and Egypt during which several landmark agreements were signed. He was received at the Delhi airport by Union Minister of State for External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi and BJP chief Nadda. BJP leaders and party MPs from Delhi such as Harsh Vardhan, Hans Raj Hans and Gautam Gambhir were also present. “He asked Nadda ji how it is going here, and Nadda ji told him that party leaders were reaching out to people with the report card of the nine years of his government, and the country is happy,” BJP MP Manoj Tiwari told reporters when asked what the prime minister asked them after...

Stepping up attack on BJP over Manipur, Congress calls Amit Shah ‘ineffective’, targets PM Modi’s ‘silence’

 AICC General Secretary Jairam Ramesh, CPI General Secretary D. Raja, former Manipur CM & Congress leader Okram Ibobi Singh and other leaders during the National Convention on Peace in Manipur, in New Delhi, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Express Photo by Premnath Pandey On a day Chief Minister N Biren Singh met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi to discuss the evolving situation in strife-torn Manipur, the Opposition Congress stepped up its attack on the BJP dispensation’s handling of the crisis, questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s continued silence on the ethnic violence that has convulsed the state. A day after Shah held an all-party meeting to discuss the Manipur crisis and assured the political parties that the situation in the state was slowly returning to normal, as many as 10 Opposition parties of Manipur held a convention in the national capital, where the Congress once again demanded Biren Singh’s removal as the CM. Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said Biren S...