Politics in photos: PM Modi & top leaders attend first all-party meeting after elections

One day before the Monsoon session of Parliament is to begin, PM Modi and other MPs look happy and ready to take charge at the first all-party meeting.

PM Modi requests YSR Congress MP Venkata Satyavathi not to touch his feet | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint
PM Modi requests YSR Congress MP Venkata Satyavathi not to touch his feet | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

With one day to go for the first session of Parliament of the 17th Lok Sabha, ThePrint brings you pictures from the first all-party meet after the general elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, defence minister Rajnath Singh, senior Congress leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma, All India Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay and others convened for the meeting in New Delhi.

1. Serious business 

Coal minister of India Pralhad Joshi (L), PM Modi (C), and defence minister Rajnath Singh (R) | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

2. Season’s greetings

Rajnath Singh (L) and Farooq Abdullah (C) | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

3. Power walk

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Trinamool MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay and defence minister Rajnath Singh at the all-party meeting | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

4. You have my blessings

PM Modi requests YSR Congress MP Venkata Satyavathi not to touch his feet | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint
YSR Congress MP Venkata Satyavathi wanted to touch PM Modi’s feet before the meeting | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

5. One-man army

Newly elected deputy leader of the house in Rajya Sabha Thaawarchand Gehlot arrives at Parliament | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

6. Sister act

Nationalist Congress Party’s Supriya Sule (R) and Apna Dal MP Anupriya Patel (L) | Photo: Praveen Jain | ThePrint

7. Full-House

The all party meeting convenes | Praveen Jain | ThePrint