After Jawahar Lal Nehru, Narendra Modi second PM to visit Vrindavan
Anuja Jaiswal | TNN | Updated: Feb 10, 2019, 22:57 IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo)AGRA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Vrindavan today. He will be the second PM, after Jawahar Lal Nehru, to visit the temple town in the 72 years of India's independence.
Ram Krishna Mission secretary Swami Suprakashananda said that Pt Nehru had visited the town on December 8, 1963, to inaugurate the Mission's charitable hospital.
Former PM Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1963
"This is a proud moment for Vrindavan residents as the PM will be visiting the town of Lord Krishna," Suprakashananda told TOI, adding that though Indira Gandhi also visited Vrindavan in the 70s during a flood situation, but she was not the PM then.
On Monday, PM Modi will serve food to schoolchildren from the underprivileged background, marking the "three billionth meal" offered by NGO Akshay Patra that works with the government on the mid-day meal scheme. Funded by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the NGO, incepted in 2000, serves wholesome school lunch to over 1.76 million children in 14,702 schools across 12 states in India, according to its website.
Akshaya Patra vice chairman Chanchalapati Das Prabhu said that PM Modi will address a gathering besides having lunch with children and interacting with them. He said that Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar are also likely to join the PM at the event to be held on the NGO's Vrindavan campus.
The district administration has been on high alert and elaborate security arrangements have been made for the PM's visit. Special Protection Group (SPG) has been deployed at the venue.
Ram Krishna Mission secretary Swami Suprakashananda said that Pt Nehru had visited the town on December 8, 1963, to inaugurate the Mission's charitable hospital.
Former PM Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1963
"This is a proud moment for Vrindavan residents as the PM will be visiting the town of Lord Krishna," Suprakashananda told TOI, adding that though Indira Gandhi also visited Vrindavan in the 70s during a flood situation, but she was not the PM then.
On Monday, PM Modi will serve food to schoolchildren from the underprivileged background, marking the "three billionth meal" offered by NGO Akshay Patra that works with the government on the mid-day meal scheme. Funded by International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), the NGO, incepted in 2000, serves wholesome school lunch to over 1.76 million children in 14,702 schools across 12 states in India, according to its website.
Akshaya Patra vice chairman Chanchalapati Das Prabhu said that PM Modi will address a gathering besides having lunch with children and interacting with them. He said that Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar are also likely to join the PM at the event to be held on the NGO's Vrindavan campus.
The district administration has been on high alert and elaborate security arrangements have been made for the PM's visit. Special Protection Group (SPG) has been deployed at the venue.
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