New Delhi: Around 10,000 security personnel have been deployed in Punjab’s Ferozepur district ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit on Wednesday. According to a PTI report, PM Modi’s first visit to Punjab after the Center withdrew the controversial agriculture laws has been opposed by some farmer organizations.
According to officials, an anti-drone squad has also been deployed in the border district. Modi is visiting Punjab after a gap of two years and will lay the foundation stone for projects worth Rs 42,750 crore. Elections are to be held in Punjab this year.
Farmers unions are demanding a law from the government to guarantee the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops and to withdraw police cases against farmers protesting the Centre’s agricultural laws.
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“Adequate security arrangements have been made ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Ferozepur in Punjab. Around 10,000 security personnel will be deployed in the border district,” PTI quoted Additional Director General of Police G Nageswara Rao as saying.
According to officials, Punjab Police is coordinating with NSG, Army and BSF to make elaborate security arrangements.
PM Modi to lay foundation stone of many development projects in Punjab
PM Modi will lay the foundation stone for development projects worth over Rs 42,750 crore, including the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway and the PGIMER satellite center at Ferozepur.
The PMO said the 669-km-long Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway will be developed at a cost of around Rs 39,500 crore, and will halve the travel time from Delhi to Amritsar and Delhi to Katra.
The projects include four-laning of the Amritsar-Una section, construction of a wide-gauge railway line between Mukerian and Talwar, and setting up of two new medical institutions at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur.
Modi’s visit assumes significance as elections are nearing the state, and the BJP has joined forces with the Akali group led by former chief ministers Amarinder Singh and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa.
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