Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI file photo)
Prime Minister Modi will hold a roadshow in Chennai on Tuesday, ahead of the April 19 Lok Sabha elections in the state
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha Election 2024. PM Modi addressed a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit and will later address a public meeting in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat. He will also hold a roadshow in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai.
The Prime Minister is campaigning for BJP Lok Sabha poll candidate Jitin Prasad in Pilibhit. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also attended the public meeting.
PM Modi in Balaghat
Modi will address an election rally on Tuesday in the Naxal-affected Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh during his second visit to the state in three days, a BJP leader said on Monday. The PM’s rally at Balaghat is scheduled to start at around 2.30 pm, he said.
This will be Modi’s second visit to Madhya Pradesh in three days. On Sunday, the BJP’s star campaigner held a roadshow in Jabalpur, which is the nerve centre of the Mahakoshal region. Lok Sabha seats of Sidhi, Shahdol (ST), Jabalpur, Mandla (ST), Balaghat and Chhindwara will vote in the first phase on April 19. These constituencies are spread across Mahakoshal and Vindhya regions.
Balaghat is locked in a triangular fight between BJP candidate Bharti Pardhi, Congress’s Samrat Saraswat and BSP nominee Kankar Munjare.In 2019, the BJP had won 28 of the 29 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh with the sole exception being Chhindwara which was retained by the Congress.
PM Modi in Chennai
Prime Minister Modi will hold a roadshow in Chennai on Tuesday, ahead of the April 19 Lok Sabha elections in the state. The roadshow will be held at Thiyagaraya Road in the city’s T. Nagar locality.
BJP state president K Annamalai had earlier said the roadshow will be covering segments of both South Chennai and Central Chennai. Tamilisai Soundararjan is BJP’s South Chennai candidate while Vinoj P Selvam is taking on DMK heavyweight Dayanidhi Maran from Central Chennai.
Traffic diversions have been announced by the police in the wake of the PM’s event while security has been beefed up in the area.
The BJP, which is heading a bloc that includes Pattali Makkal Katchi and Tamil Maanila Congress-Moopanar, is making all out efforts to put up a better electoral show this time, under the leadership of an aggressive and assertive Annamalai, who is contesting the polls from Coimbatore.
The party has no representation from Tamil Nadu in the outgoing House.
