Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday held a meeting with BJP president J P Nadda and several Union ministers. The meeting was taken at his official residence including ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and others

Earlier this month, PM held about five meetings with union ministers in groups. According to the information contained, meetings are apparently to take stock of the work done by them so far. Both cabinet- and minister of state-rank ministers were present in these meetings while all the meetings lasted for nearly five hours. Besides Shah and Singh, Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar were among those who attended Sunday's meeting. Other than BJP chief Nadda, the party's general secretary BL Santhosh was also present at the meet. Since, the five continuous meets are scheduled political observers feel this could be an exercise before an expected cabinet expansion and reshuffle. L

The BJP is carrying out similar review exercise in various states and has been holding meetings with the chief ministers and leaders of states ruled by it.

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