BJP asks party MPs to declare their assets by today

Senior BJP leaders after the party's parliamentary board meeting on Tuesday.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday pulled up its MPs and asked them to declare their assets by Wednesday. The issue was discussed in the BJP Parliamentary Party meet on Tuesday.
Party sources said Prime Minister Narendra Modi considers the move to declare assets as key to providing good governance and fighting black money. "The PM has been saying this from the very beginning, however, there are a few MPs who have not declared assets even now,' said a party leader.
The diktat comes just weeks before the government celebrates 'Good Governance Day' on December 25, the occasion of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's birthday.
The board unanimously condemned the unruly remarks by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kalyan Banerjee against PM Modi and other leaders, saying such remarks go against the ethics.
"The BJP Parliamentary Party unanimously condemned the unruly and indecent remarks made by Mamata Banerjee and Kalyan Banerjee against the PM and other BJP leaders. The party feels such remarks are against the democratic spirit and civic ethics," said Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi after the meet.
The party also hailed Modi's rally in Srinagar on Monday which was attended by a record number of Kashmiris and termed it as a "historic" one. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu talked about the prime minister's "historic" rally in Srinagar and then asked Union minister Jitendra Singh to apprise them about the rally, where he accompanied the PM. Singh said never before in the past 30 years such a rally took place in Srinagar.
The party MPs, who met in the absence of the prime minister and BJP chief Amit Shah, were informed that the insurance Bill will be taken up next week in Parliament after the Union Cabinet approves the report of the Select Committee.
Earlier, addressing BJP MPs, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told them that once the report is submitted to Rajya Sabha, the Union Cabinet will approve the recommendations and the Bill will be taken up for consideration and passage.
The finance minister also informed the members on how the stalemate in Rajya Sabha was resolved as various parties creating uproar over Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti's remarks had scaled down their demand and were seeking to find a "face-saver" to come out of the situation as "they were losing their image before public"

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