The BJP has revised Prime Minister Modi’s roadshow in Bengalur, the event will be on 6th and 7th May.
The BJP has revised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow in Bengaluru. Instead of one day, the PM will now hold the event in Bengaluru on Saturday and Sunday to minimise the inconvenience to citizens.
The BJP had earlier planned a 36.6 km road show from east to west and from north to south on Saturday, a working day for government, PSU and bank employees as well as schools and colleges. The party has, however, cut Saturday’s roadshow to 3.5 hours from 10 am from the day-long one.
BJP election management committee convenor and union minister Shobha Karandlaje released details of the revised programme at a media conference.
The PM will begin the roadshow from the Kempe Gowda statue at New Thippasandra and end at the War Memorial on Brigade Road at 1.30 pm. He will resume the same from the War Memorial on Sunday and end at Sankey Lake at 1.30 pm. The party has named the road show as “Namma Bengaluru, Namma Hemme,” (Our Bengaluru, Our Pride).
The road show is part of the last leg of the three-day election campaign by the PM beginning Friday. He will address public rallies at Ballari and Tumakuru on Friday and at Badami and Haveri on Saturday evening. He will address public meetings at Shivamogga Rural and Nanjangud on Sunday evening. He will wrap up his campaign tour Sunday evening with a visit and pooja at the famous temple of Srikanteshwara at Nanjangud.
Bengaluru has 28 constituencies, and the PM will cover 18 constituencies on two days. Modi had done a 5-km road show last Saturday across three constituencies.
A handsome win in Bengaluru is critical for the ruling party to form the government in the 224-member assembly, and this is probably why the BJP has decided to go for a mammoth roadshow rather than public rallies.
The Congress, despite facing anti-incumbency, gave a tough fight to the BJP in the 2018 assembly polls, winning 15 seats. The BJP had won 11 seats while the JDS got two seats.
The BJP is pulling out all stops to return to power in Karnataka as it is the only southern state the party is in power and had won 25 of 28 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 general election.
