Ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is geared up to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s roadshow a grand event. Which will cover around one kilometre stretch from Malviya Nagar trisection to Major Nanke Petrol Pump cross section. Elaborating on this, Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav said “Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow on Wednesday evening in Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. He will be given a grand welcome from about 200 stages set up on roadside. It will be featured with flower petals, chants of Modi-Modi and with the slogan of ‘MP Ke Mann Main Modi, Modi Ke Man Main MP’. The Prime Minister will ride on an open chariot and greet people. Security arrangements have been in place in and around New Market area. It will be PM Modi’s second roadshow in Madhya Pradesh and fifth visit to the state in the last 18 days. He further said that in last 10 years, it is PM Modi’s vision which has laid strong foundation of development in the country and our State too reaped the benefits of this. Modiji is only PM who has visited highest number of times to Madhya Pradesh with respect to his predecessors.

 

Taking on Congress he said that Congress party used to do politics of vote bank and divide. It will be PM Modi’s second roadshow in Madhya Pradesh and fifth visit to the state in the last 18 days. The prime minister kick-started his poll campaign in the state on April 7 with a roadshow in Jabalpur constituency, another bastion of the BJP which it has been winning since 1996. BJP’s Alok Sharma is pitted against Congress candidate Arun Shrivastava in the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat, where polling will be held on May 7. “Modi ji will lead the roadshow in the city on April 24 evening,” Madhya Pradesh BJP’s Media Cell chief Ashish Agrawal told to ‘The Hitavada’. The roadshow would cover a distance of 1.5 km from the old Vidhan Sabha to New Market area. It will commence around 7 pm, Bhopal Commissioner of Police Harinarayanachari Mishra said when contacted over phone. Security Tightened: Nearly 2,000 police personnel, including 24 IPS officers, will be deployed for security during the roadshow, he added.

 

Mishra added that from State hangar Prime Minister will reach Malviya Nagar by road and proceed for roadshow. During his convoy’s movement normal traffic from state hanger to Malviya Nagar will be restricted and routes will be diverted. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 28 out of the total 29 Lok Sabha seats in the State, while the Congress won only the Chhindwara constituency. This time, the BJP is aiming for a clean sweep in the State. The BJP has been winning the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat since 1989. According to the Election Commission, there are 23,29,892 voters in the Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. Before the roadshow in Bhopal constituency in evening, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also address public meetings in Sagar and Betul (Scheduled Tribe) Lok Sabha seats on April 24. Betul votes in the second phase on April 26 while Bhopal and Sagar vote on May 7 in the third phase.