PM to visit Varanasi on Sept 2223, inaugurate projects
VARANASI : Six months after the BJP’s landslide win in the UP assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on September 22 and 23 to thank the people and lay the foundation of several developmental schemes, party sources said.
The PM is most likely to call on a group of Muslim women which supported the NDA government’s stand against triple talaq and offered prayers to Lord Hanuman on the issue.
The visit, the PM’s first after the assembly polls, will begin with distribution of registration certificates to beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Besides, the PM will lay the foundation of seven projects at Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) on September 22 afternoon.
Modi will also inaugurate 17 projects, including the RamnagarSamne Ghat bridge, Balua Ghat bridge on the Ganga and the second phase of the trade facilitation centre. The PM inaugurated the first phase of the trade facilitation centre in December last year.
He will stay overnight at the DLW guesthouse where he is likely to meet prominent people of Varanasi to seek their opinion on various issues.
He will inaugurate a big animal fair on 1800 acres of land in Shahanshahpur area here on September 23. After addressing farmers, he will fly back to New Delhi the same day.
Party sources said chief minister Yogi Adityanath formally invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Kashi during his visit to New Delhi on Monday.
The PM had held road shows on March 4, 5 and 6 in Varanasi just before the last phase of the assembly elections.
The party’s district unit president Hansraj Vishwakarma has confirmed the PM’s visit, though the official itinerary is yet to be received.