Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi (SP)
New Delhi, Aug 5: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, advised BJP MPs from the South to change their functioning style to suit the changing political scenario in the country, and said that their primary aim should be to ensure that the schemes of the central government reach the beneficaires for whose benefit they are meant.
He was addressing the MPs from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Assam, Arunchal Pradesh and Maniipur states who had assembled at his residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg here on Friday August 4 morning for an informal breakfast meeting.
Need to popularise schemes of the union government like Kaushalya Vikas, Rupay card, Mudra scheme, Ujjwal scheme, health card scheme, Kissan Laxmi card programme etc was discussed by MPs. the PM discussed with the MPs the need to ensure that these schemes reach to the people of their respective states more affectively. Modi is learnt to have given some suggestions and instructions to MPs relating to the need to give more publicity to, and create awareness about, government schemes particularly in states where non-BJP governments are in office.
At the meeting, concern was expressed about the murders of BJP and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh activists with particular reference to Kerala. It is said that some MPs brought to the notice of the PM the need to formulate guiding principles for currencies like bit coins.
Minister for parliamentary affairs, Ananth Kumar, compered the meeting.
However, when media persons approached some parliamentarians who had taken part in the hour-long meeting, they dithered from giving the details. It is said that they were told not to share any details of the meeting with the media. Modi had taken some of the MPs to task for providing details of the previous meeting to some media persons. A media release issued about the meeting later just said that discussions were held about implementation of various schemes of the central government.