Amit Shah's events in Mangaluru cancelled

MANGALURU: With BJP national president Amit Shah being called away to New Delhi for some ‘emergency talks,’ his meetings with ‘intellectuals' and the BJP core committee, scheduled for Wednesday, have been cancelled.

Sanjeev Matandoor, Dakshina Kannada BJP president, said Shah will now arrive in Mangaluru on Tuesday night and catch a plane to Delhi.

As per the original itinerary, Shah was to attend some programmes in Mangaluru and return to trouble-torn Kannur to take part in the Janaraksha Rally that he launched in north Kerala on Tuesday. But they have been cancelled too.

In Mangaluru, he was to meet 2,000 professionals -- doctors, lawyers, advocates – at the TMA Pai Hall on Wednesday. Over 1,800 persons had registered for the event till Tuesday afternoon.

The party had made elaborate arrangements in Mangaluru to welcome Shah with much festoonery erected on the roads that he would travel on.

The BJP chief’s four-day visit to Mangaluru-Kannur began on Monday night but did not go as planned. The party planned to give him a rousing reception and escort him in a convoy of 100 vehicles from the Mangaluru airport to Talapady on the interstate border. But that came a cropper when he missed the flight from Ahmedabad.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will arrive in Mangaluru on Tuesday night before leaving for Kannur to take part in the Janaraksha rally.