Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Odisha and Kerala today as Lok Sabha elections are nearing. He arrived in Odisha's Balangir earlier today. "There is something special about Odisha, that draws me to the state so often!" he said on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Monday. This was PM Modi's third visit to Odisha in three weeks. PM Modi launched a slew of infrastructure projects in Balangir worth Rs 1,550 crore. Odisha goes to state polls this year along with the general elections due in May. PM Modi will also visit Kerala's Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram today. In Kollam, PM Modi will inaugurate the Kollam bypass on NH-66. PM Modi will visit the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram. This will be the third official visit of the Prime Minister to Kollam.

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