Achievements in sport, increased job opportunities discussed at NDA’s ‘Mangal Milan’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the NDA’s parliamentary meeting, where ministers highlighted India’s sporting achievements, employment growth and welfare schemes. The gathering followed the BJP’s Bankipur bypoll defeat, with leaders reaffirming unity and participation from alliance partners

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers and leaders of the NDA constituents on Tuesday attended the ruling coalition’s weekly meeting of the Parliamentarians where presentations were given on how India is getting laurels in international sports events and increased employment generating avenues offering crores of jobs to youth.

BJP president Nitin Nabin was seen sitting next to Prime Minister Modi at the ‘Mangal Milan’ meeting held at the Parliament House complex here on Tuesday, a day after the saffron party was defeated at Bihar’s Bankipur assembly seat where its candidate lost to poll strategist-turned- politician Prashant Kishore in a by-election.

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The by-election at Bankipur, considered a BJP bastion, was necessitated after Nabin vacated the seat following his election to Rajya Sabha after he assumed the charge of BJP President.

BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya gave a detailed presentation on sports and said the Modi government had adopted a sports policy in 2014 which resulted in India now getting many awards, including gold in international sporting events, including Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games.

He said that a detailed presentation was also given on the employment generating avenues and it was told that job opportunities have increased for youth day by day.

“We were told at the Mangal Milan that between 2004 and 2014, when UPA was in power, only 2.89 crore youth got the jobs while between 2014 and 2026, a total of 17.1 crore youth got the employment,” Tiwari said.

The BJP MP from Delhi said presentation was also given at the NDA parliamentary party meeting on various social security schemes of the Government.

Another BJP MP PP Chaudhary said “Mangal Milan mein Mangal hi hota hain (everything is good at Mangal Milan).

Representatives of NDA allies JD-U, JD-S, NCP, Shiv Sena, NCPI among others attended the meeting.

NCPI leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who left the Trinamool Congress and joined the little known party, said he attended the NDA parliamentary party meeting for the first time.

“I am one of the senior most parliamentarians in the country. All are united in NCPI. It is a good experience,” he said.

Those who attended the meeting include Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar besides others.