Prime Minister Narendra Modi today exhorted BJP MPs to strike a chord with the masses by directly communicating with them on the government’s plans and programmes using mobile phones and social media platforms.

Modi’s advice to his party MPs came during his fifth and final round of informal consultations at the Prime Minister's residence-cum-office here today. BJP Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members from Jharkhand, Odisha, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Telangana besides all the nominated members of Parliament were present at the meeting.

The Prime Minister primarily spoke about the plight of farmers in the country. He apprised the members about the salient features of his government’s plans to provide irrigation facilities to farmers and ‘Ek Bharat Shreshta Bharat’ plans. Modi sought to impress upon the members the need to work towards fulfilling the aspirations of the masses through effective implementation of the government’s various welfare programmes at the grassroots level.

Informing the party MPs about the ‘Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichayee Yojana’, Modi said his government is committed to ameliorate the economic conditions of farmers by finding ways of saving and making optimum use of water resources for irrigation purposes. Modi exhorted the MPs to launch a campaign to link the government’s agriculture irrigation programme with MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). He also underlined the need for building an institutional framework for implementing the government’s agricultural irrigation programme till 2022 and beyond 2025 across the country.

Modi told the BJP parliamentarians how to strengthen the unity among the country’s 125 crore population representing India’s unique socio-cultural might under the government’s ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’ initiative.

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar was present at the PM’s interaction with party MPs. The members gave details about the changes being brought about in the lives of the people through the government’s poverty alleviation programme.