Two days after most exit polls predicted a virtually clean sweep by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Lok Sabha elections, top leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, attended a dinner hosted by Amit Shah in the capital on Tuesday.
The dinner was followed by a meeting in which nearly two dozen allies felicitated the prime minister. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray, Shiromani Akali Dal’s Parkash Singh Badal, and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, among others, were there.
During the dinner meeting, the prime minister expressed concern over the "needless controversy"