World Environment Day 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign on Wednesday, in honor of World Environment Day. In Delhi’s Buddha Jayanti Park, Prime Minister Modi also planted a sapling of a peepal tree. During the seedling planting ceremony, PM Modi was joined by Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Vinai Kumar Saxena and Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav. June 5th is World Environment Day, which honors the first day of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment in 1972.
Land Restoration and Drought Resilience
The celebration’s theme this year is “Land Restoration, Desertification and Drought Resilience,” emphasizing how critical it is to preserve and repair our land resources. The Union Cabinet is scheduled to convene in Delhi today at approximately 11:30 a.m. Today, the NDA leaders will gather at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, the home of Prime Minister Modi. It is planned for the meeting to begin at approximately 3:30 pm.
Important figures are anticipated to attend the NDA conference, including former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Around 6:00 p.m., the INDIA bloc meeting will take place in the nation’s capital. To plan out their future courses of political action, the opposition INDIA coalition and the NDA, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, are scheduled to meet on Wednesday.
BJP Secures 240 Seats
Tuesday was the day for the 2024 Lok Sabha election tallying. The Election Commission of India reports that the BJP secured 240 seats, significantly fewer than their 2019 total of 303 seats. In contrast, the Congress saw a significant increase, gaining 99 seats. Defying all expectations and posing fierce competition, the INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been granted a third term, but the BJP will require the backing of JD (U) leader Nitish Kumar and TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu, two other parties in his alliance. After the ballots from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections were tabulated, the BJP was 32 seats shy of a majority. It did not win a majority by itself for the first time since the Bharatiya Janata Party stormed to power in 2014.
