Bengaluru, Feb 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally on Sunday to mark the conclusion of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 90-day Nava Nirman Parivarthan Yatra across the poll-bound Karnataka state. Elaborate security system has been pressed into service at Palace Ground in Bengaluru. Heavy security personnel have been deployed to avoid any untoward incidents ahead of Modi’s rally at 2 PM.
According to reports, the party state unit has also invited people through social media and is hoping that huge crowd will attend the rally.
Earlier in the day, the Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar took to Twitter and posted, “PM @narendramodi ji will grace the #ParivartanaYatre rally today at Palace Ground, Bengaluru. Time: 2.00 PM. Countdown for overthrowing the @siddaramaiah government has begun.”
The three-month long yatra was flagged off by BJP Chief Amit Shah on November 1 and later was led by former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa. Modi was scheduled to address the rally on January 28, on the last day of the three-month yatra, but it was postponed to February 4 due to his busy schedule.
The state will go for polls in late April and early May. The party conducted yatra across all the constituencies ahead of the election.
Meanwhile, some pro-Kannada groups had called shutdown over Mahadayi water dispute. Karnataka, has locked horns with Goa on sharing Mahadayi river water, is seeking release of 7.56 tmcft water for the Kalasa-Banduri Nala project.