PM Modi to inaugurate, lay foundation stone of projects worth Rs 3,800 crore in Mangaluru today
PM Modi in Mangaluru: Party workers and beneficiaries of government programmes are likely to come from various parts of Dakshina Kannada district and neighbouring Udupi.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Mangaluru today
- PM will inaugurate and lay foundation for several mechanisation and industrialisation projects
- Nearly two lakh people are likely to attend the event at Goldfinch city grounds on Friday
PM Modi in Mangaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Mangaluru on Friday (September 2) during which he will inaugurate and lay the foundation for mechanisation and industrialisation projects worth around Rs 3,800 crore and address a mega event.
Tomorrow, 2nd September I look forward to being among my sisters and brothers of Mangaluru. Key projects worth Rs. 3,800 crore will be inaugurated or their foundation stones would be laid. These important works are related to mechanisation and industrialisation.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 1, 2022
This visit by Modi for about a couple of hours to this port city, after attending events in neighbouring Kerala, is likely to give a boost to the Karnataka BJP, which is preparing for Assembly polls next year, aiming to regain power in the state, with a target of winning at least 150 of the total 224 seats.
According to party and official sources, the Prime Minister is scheduled to arrive at the Mangaluru International Airport at around 1:30 pm, from where he will fly to New Mangaluru Port Authority (NMPA) premises at Panambur by a chopper, and after inaugurating or laying foundation to various projects, he will arrive at the Goldfinch city grounds, to attend an official public event.
Nearly two lakh people are likely to attend the event at Goldfinch city grounds, they said, in addition to one lakh workers of the BJP, the district administration is also said to have invited about 70,000 beneficiaries of various Union government welfare schemes to the programme.
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Party workers and beneficiaries of government programmes are likely to come from various parts of Dakshina Kannada district and neighbouring Udupi. Mangaluru
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines Prahlad Joshi, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje, a host of state Ministers, BJP legislators and leaders are likely to participate in the event.
The visit to Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district is seen as significant after recent incidents of “communal” murders including that of BJP activist Praveen Nettar near here, which triggered widespread protests and spate of resignations by some of its Yuva Morcha members and workers at various places across Karnataka, accusing the state government of not standing up to protect the lives of Hindu ‘Karyakartas’.
Several Hindutva ideologues and organisations too had expressed their angst against the government, reflecting similar sentiments. The visit is also at the time when the BJP government is facing corruption charges of “40 per cent commission” in public works by the state contractors’ association, and also allegations of irregularities in several departments by certain organisations and opposition parties, especially the Congress. Mangaluru
The projects that PM will inaugurate or lay foundation tomorrow include- Inauguration of the project worth over Rs 280 crore for mechanisation of Berth No. 14 for handling containers and other cargo, undertaken by the New Mangalore Port Authority; lay the foundation stone of five projects worth around Rs 1,000 crore, undertaken by the Port.
He will also inaugurate two projects undertaken by Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited viz BS VI Upgradation Project and Sea Water Desalination Plant, worth Rs 1,830 crore and Rs 680 crore respectively.
(With agencies inputs)
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