BHOPAL, Sept 24:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mega congregation of BJP workers during his visit here Tuesday, an event which comes just ahead of the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.
BJP president Amit Shah will also speak at the event, ‘Karyakarta Mahakumbh’ (grand assembly of party workers), being held on the occasion of birth anniversary of Hindutva icon and Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) co-founder Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
The event, to be held at Jambooree Maidan in the BHEL locality, will be the “world’s largest congregation of political workers,” state BJP spokesman Sarvesh Tiwari said.
“BJP president Amit Shah will also address party workers on the occasion,” he said.
The venue has been named as “Atal Mahakumbh Parisar” in memory of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who passed away in New Delhi in August.
Modi will arrive at the Bhopal airport around noon and will reach the venue in a helicopter along with other BJP leaders to avoid inconvenience to people, party leaders said.
The prime minister will remain in the state capital for nearly three hours, they said.
BJP workers from 65,000 polling booths spread across the 230 Assembly seats in the state will take part in the programme, said Rajnish Agrawal, another state BJP spokesman.
An exhibition hall named after BJP leader and former Union minister, late Anil Madhav Dave, has also been set up at the rally site.
“It will showcase the journey and works of BJP stalwarts, including Vajpayee, Modi and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan,” Agrawal said. (PTI)
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