Prime Minister Narendra Modi intervened during a discussion on the backward commission at the BJP’s National Executive today, saying more inclusiveness is needed for those who are backward among the Muslim community.
The conclave, on its second day, was discussing the commission for backward classes, which the government wanted to upgrade by giving it a constitutional status. Through a bill that was passed by the Lok Sabha, the Parliament was also given a free hand to include any community as backward. But the bill had been stalled in Rajya Sabha and today, the BJP had vehemently criticized the opposition for it.
Soon after concluding the BJP National Executive meeting in Odisha today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will set out on a two-day tour to Gujarat. This will be his eighth visit to his home state in the last nine months which is going to the polls in November.
PM Modi will arrive at Surat airport at 7 pm and a bikers rally will escort him to the circuit house. “He is visiting Surat for the first time after the BJP’s landslide victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. We are very excited to receive him,” state BJP chief Jitu Vaghani said.
The entire stretch from the Surat airport to the circuit house has been decked up and all government and commercial buildings along the route will be illuminated. PM Modi will hold meetings with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and other BJP leaders at the circuit house.
On Monday, PM Modi will inaugurate a Rs. 400-crore hospital in Surat run by a welfare trust, a cattle feed plant and an ice-cream facility of Surat District Co-operative Milk Producers Union at Bajipura village in Tapi district, and a diamond factory at Ichhapore Gems and Jewellery Park..
