On 4th anniversary, PM Narendra Modi to address public meeting in Cuttack

BHUBANESWAR: Marking the completion of four years of his government at the Centre on May 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public meeting in Cuttack.

Disclosing this here on Saturday, BJP general secretary Odisha in-charge Arun Singh said, "The PM's choice of Odisha for May 26 (the day he took over as Prime Minister four years ago), shows the amount of importance he gives to Odisha."

Singh said there will be a massive public meeting. "As stated by our party president Amit Shah earlier, we will definitely win 120 (of the 147) assembly seats in the state. Next government in Odisha is going to be a BJP government," he said.

Odisha becomes one of the key focus states for the BJP.

BJP president Amit Shah had earlier said his party's golden age would not come till the BJP wins Odisha, West Bengal and Kerala. BJP leaders here feel Odisha is more achievable since the Congress is decimated and Naveen Patnaik has the anti-incumbency of four terms.

The 147-member Odisha assembly goes to polls simultaneously with Lok Sabha in 2019.

It will be the PM's fifth visit to the state after he took over. Marking the two years of his government at the Centre, the Prime Minister had addressed a public rally at Balasore on June 2, 2016.

Modi addressed a farmers rally at Bargarh on February 21 that year. He was here to inaugurate the oil refinery project of Indian Oil Corporation Limited on February 7, 2016. Earlier, the PM dedicated the modernised and expanded units of Rourkela Steel Plant to the nation on April 1, 2015.