Narendra Modi in Gujarat live updates: PM offers prayer at Dwarkadhish Temple; CM Vijay Rupani also present

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offers prayers at Dwarkadhish Temple in Gujarat’s Dwarka. (Source: ANI photo)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Jamnagar on Saturday on his two-day visit in poll-bound Gujarat during which he will lay foundation stones and inaugurate a number of projects. He will visit Dwarka where he will first visit the Dwarkadhish Temple. After visiting the temple, the PM is scheduled to lay the Foundation Stones of a bridge between Okha and Beyt Dwarka.

The PM is also scheduled to inaugurate other development projects in the area, after which he will address a public meeting. He will then head towards Surendranagar district and then proceed to Gandhinagar. PM Modi is also scheduled to visit Vadnagar, his birth place, for the first time since becoming the prime minister in 2014.

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In Gandhinagar he will dedicate the newly-constructed building of IIT Gandhinagar, and launch the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA). PMGDISHA is aimed at imparting digital literacy to citizens in rural areas, the PMO said, adding it will provide access to information, knowledge, education, and healthcare. It will create avenues for livelihood generation and financial inclusion through digital payments, the statement said.

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11.30 am: PM welcomed at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a bridge between Okha and Bet Dwarka; Union Min Nitin Gadkari also present.

11.00 am: 

Gujarat: PM Narendra Modi at Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka; will lay foundation stone of bridge between Okha & Bet Dwarka, later. pic.twitter.com/AezIRP7lFf

— ANI (@ANI) October 7, 2017

10.45 am: PM Narendra Modi offers prayers at Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka. Chief Minister Vijay Rupani also present.

10.15 am: The PM was received by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, former chief minister Anandiben Patel and several others

09.50 am: PM Narendra Modi arrives in Jamnagar, Gujarat for his two-day visit to the state

09.30 am: After Dwarka, the PM will head towards Chotila, in Surendranagar district, where he will lay the Foundation Stones for a greenfield airport at Rajkot, six-laning of Ahmedabad-Rajkot National Highway and four-laning of Rajkot-Morbi State Highway. Modi will also be dedicating a fully automatic milk processing and packaging plant and a drinking water distribution pipeline for Joravarnagar and Ratanpur area of Surendranagar.

09.10 am: PM Modi’s programmes will begin with a visit to the Dwarkadhish Temple. He will then lay the foundation stone for a bridge between Okha and Bet Dwarka. The foundation stones for other projects relating to the road sector will also be laid. He is then scheduled to address a public meeting at Dwarka.