Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked BJP leaders to reach out to Muslim women during the upcoming festival of Raksha Bandhan.
Sources said PM Modi made the remarks at a meeting of BJPled NDA MPs from West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand.
The BJP has divided NDA MPs region-wise into clusters of nearly 40 members and PM Modi is expected to speak to them separately during the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament as the alliance gears up for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Some MPs present in the meeting said PM Modi emphasised the need to connect with every section of society and then noted his Government’s decision to ban triple talaq has boosted the overall sense of security for Muslim women.
The Prime Minister asked them to organise programmes during Raksha Bandhan to reach out to women from the minority community.
PM Modi has often highlighted his Government’s reform measures for Muslim women.
The BJP has been making an outreach to Pasmanda (backward) Muslims and recently inducted a member of the community into the party’s organisational team.
In his speech to the MPs, he noted that the opposition alliance might have changed its name from UPA to INDIA but it will not be able to wash off its “sins of corruption and misgovernance”.
The first two meetings were held on July31. He had also addressed a meeting of about 45 NDA MPs from the western part of Uttar Pradesh up to the KanpurBundelkhand region.
