Gujarat: Soon after addressing the concluding session of the two-day BJP National Executive meeting in Odisha today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will set out on a two-day tour to Gujarat. This will be his eighth visit to his home state in the last nine months which is going to the polls in November.
PM Modi will arrive at Surat airport at 7 pm and a bikers rally will escort him to the circuit house. "He is visiting Surat for the first time after the BJP's landslide victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. We are very excited to receive him," state BJP chief Jitu Vaghani said.
The entire stretch from the Surat airport to the circuit house has been decked up and all government and commercial buildings along the route will be illuminated. PM Modi will hold meetings with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and other BJP leaders at the circuit house.
He will also inaugurate the first phase of an irrigation project at Botad in Saurashtra, and lay the foundation stone for the second phase of the scheme. The scheme, Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI), aims to fill 115 dams in the parched Saurashtra region by diverting floodwaters overflowing from the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada river.
He will also address a rally in Katargam area with significant Patidar population. The Patidars have been at loggerheads with the BJP over the reservation issue. Traditionally, BJP voters, the Patidars led by quota activist Hardik Patel seem to hold a grudge against the BJP government after a crackdown on the reservation agitation a few years back.
Mr Patel was in jail for nine months before he was granted bail on the condition that he would leave Gujarat immediately. The young campaigner has pledged to ensure BJP's defeat in the Gujarat polls.
(With inputs from agencies)
PM Modi will arrive at Surat airport at 7 pm and a bikers rally will escort him to the circuit house. "He is visiting Surat for the first time after the BJP's landslide victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. We are very excited to receive him," state BJP chief Jitu Vaghani said.
The entire stretch from the Surat airport to the circuit house has been decked up and all government and commercial buildings along the route will be illuminated. PM Modi will hold meetings with Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and other BJP leaders at the circuit house.
He will also inaugurate the first phase of an irrigation project at Botad in Saurashtra, and lay the foundation stone for the second phase of the scheme. The scheme, Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation (SAUNI), aims to fill 115 dams in the parched Saurashtra region by diverting floodwaters overflowing from the Sardar Sarovar Dam across the Narmada river.
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He will also address a rally in Katargam area with significant Patidar population. The Patidars have been at loggerheads with the BJP over the reservation issue. Traditionally, BJP voters, the Patidars led by quota activist Hardik Patel seem to hold a grudge against the BJP government after a crackdown on the reservation agitation a few years back.
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Mr Patel was in jail for nine months before he was granted bail on the condition that he would leave Gujarat immediately. The young campaigner has pledged to ensure BJP's defeat in the Gujarat polls.
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(With inputs from agencies)
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