Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday met over 40 BJP MPs from other backward classes at his official residence, sources said.
This was the first of a series of meetings scheduled betweenModi and BJP MPs at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg.
On Thursday, he is scheduled to meet MPs from scheduledcastes, they said.
There was no specific agenda for the meeting.There was aninformal discussion between the prime minister and the parliamentarians, a BJPMP, present at the meeting, said.
“Modiji interacted with us briefly and the MPsintroduced themselves,” the parliamentarian said.
Forty-three MPs and Parliamentary Affairs Minister PralhadJoshi were present at the meeting.
The BJP parliamentarians have been divided into seven groupssuch as young MPs, women MPs and MPs from scheduled castes, scheduled tribesand other backward classes.
Each group will meet Modi separately, the sources said.
This is the first set of meetings between Modi and thenewly-elected MPs of the 17th Lok Sabha.During the 16th Lok Sabha, Modi had met BJP MPsfrom various states in every session of Parliament, where he had spoken to themabout the government’s agenda.