PM Modi to address mega meet of BJP workers in poll-bound M.P. on Sep 25

The BJP has set an ambitious target of cobbling up 10 lakh people for PM Modi’s address, said party insiders. With the mega event, it wants to showcase its strength ahead of the polls, they said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a large gathering of BJP workers in Bhopal on September 25 to mark the formal culmination of the party’s five ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatras’ being held to reach out to the masses before the year-end assembly polls in M.P., a party leader said on September 21.

This will be PM Modi’s third visit to the State in the past 45 days, an indication of the BJP’s attempt to retain power in the central State by leveraging his popularity.

“Modiji is going to address a 'Karyakarta Mahakumbh' at Jamboree Maidan in Bhopal on September 25, the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya (Bharatiya Jana Sangh co-founder),” State BJP media cell in-charge Ashish Agrawal told PTI on Thursday. Bharatiya Jana Sangh was the forerunner to the BJP.

He said the final minute-to-minute programme is not yet out.

The BJP has set an ambitious target of cobbling up 10 lakh people for PM Modi’s address, said party insiders. With the mega event, it wants to showcase its strength ahead of the polls, they said.

The BJP rolled out five yatras – mass contact programme – early this month, with party president J.P. Nadda flagging off the first one from Chitrakoot in Satna on September 3.

These yatras are meant to cover more than 10,500 kilometres in 210 of the State’s 230 assembly constituencies before culminating into a mega workers' meet in Bhopal on September 25, party leaders said.