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Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers from BJP-led NDA states have began convening at the Ashoka Hotel in New Delhi on Sunday for a high-level meeting to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

Leaders from the 19 NDA-ruled states in the meeting include Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Rajasthan CM Bhajanlal Sharma, Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio, Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma, Tripura CM Manik Saha, Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu, Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai, Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi, Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav, and Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel.

 

Deputy Chief Ministers, including Bihar’s Vijay Sinha and Samrat Choudhary, Chhattisgarh’s Arun Sao and Vijay Sharma, Odisha’s Pravati Parida, Maharashtra’s Ajit Pawar and Eknath Shinde, Nagaland’s TR Zeliang and Yanthungo Patton, Rajasthan’s Prem Chand Bairwa and Diya Kumari, and Uttar Pradesh’s Brajesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya, would be present in the meet.

 

Also attending are BJP National President and Union Health Minister JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.

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According to sources, the meeting was organised to brief the leaders on ‘Operation Sindoor’ and India’s wider security strategy amid recent developments.

 

"A meeting would be convened to brief the leaders about India's strike on terror camps in Pakistan, Operation Sindoor and understanding on cessation of hostilities. All the Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers have been invited for the meeting. This will give a strong message in terms of national security," a source familiar with the matter informed.

 

The gathering is being viewed as a concerted effort to reaffirm the NDA government’s position on national security and present a unified front following India’s counter-terror strikes across the border.

 

The meeting would be taking place a day after the 10th Governing Council Meeting of NITI Aayog, also chaired by PM Modi, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, on the theme ‘Viksit Rajya for Viksit Bharat @2047’.