PM Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound West Bengal and Assam for the second time in two weeks. PM Modi in Bengal, Assam LIVE updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Assam and West Bengal Sunday and will inaugurate a number of infrastructural projects in the two poll-bound states. According to the schedule released by the BJP, PM Modi will arrive in Assam at 11:45 AM, where he will lay the foundation stone of two hospitals and launch ‘Asom Mala’, a programme for state highways and major district roads in Dhekiajuli, Sonitpur district.
This will mark PM Modi’s second visit to the two states in the last two weeks, as the BJP ramps up its campaigning efforts ahead of the upcoming Assembly election.
During his visit to West Bengal at 4 pm today, Prime Minister Modi is slated to address a public rally in Haldia. He will also lay foundation stones for “key infrastructure projects”. PM Modi will inaugurate a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) import terminal, built by Bharat Petroleum at an investment of around Rs 1,100 crore and has a capacity of 1 million metric tonne per annum.
“It will cater to the growing requirement of LPG in West Bengal and other states in eastern and north-eastern India and is an important step towards realising the vision of the Prime Minister to provide clean cooking LPG to every household,” the Prime Minister’s office said.
BJP National President JP Nadda on Saturday inaugurated ‘Parivartan Yatra’ without police permission and questioned Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “anger” at the raising of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans at a recent attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Why does she hate the Jai Shri Ram slogan so much? Is it wrong to connect with the culture of one’s own country? They (the TMC) want to negate the country’s culture for the sake of vote-bank politics,” he told a gathering at Nabadwip in Nadia district — the birthplace of 15th-century saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The Nadia ‘Parivartan Yatra’ is among five such rallies that will criss-cross all 294 constituencies to mobilise support for the BJP ahead of the state Assembly polls in April-May.
In Malda, Nadda attended the final round of the party’s month-long ‘Krishak Suraksha Abhiyan’ and ‘Ek Mutthi Chawal’ campaigns. He accused Banerjee’s “ego” of depriving the state’s farmers of PM-Kisan benefits and reaffirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to farmers’ welfare. Read the full report here.
Ahead of his upcoming visit to Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was glad to see that the state was immensely enthusiastic about his arrival. Sharing photographs of women lighting diyas in preperation for his trip, he tweeted, "Happy to be getting yet another opportunity to be in the state tomorrow. We will continue working for Assam’s all-round development."
This will be the Prime Minister's second visit to the poll-bound state in the last two weeks.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's scheduled programme at Haldia in Purba Medinipore district on Sunday evening, a top official at the state secretariat said.
The exact reason for this uncertainty has not been specified, but the "insult meted out to her" on January 23, when Jai Shri Ram'' slogans were raised at an event just before her speech, could be the cause, he said.
Modi is set to inaugurate four projects in Haldia in oil, gas, and infrastructure sectors.
"Madam (CM) is unlikely to attend this evening''s programme at Haldia where PM Modi will be inaugurating projects," the official told PTI.
The TMC boss has also asked her party members to skip the programme, he added.
Banerjee had on January 23 refused to deliver her speech at an event on the occasion of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary, after a section of the audience raised ''Jai Shri Ram'' slogans in the presence of the prime minister.
She had said that such "insult was unacceptable". (PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will touch down in Assam at 11:45 AM today, where he will inaugurate a number of infrastructure projects in the poll-bound state. Following this, the Prime Minister is slated to visit West Bengal to address a public rally in Haldia and launch several other "key projects". Take a look at his schedule.