BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi is expected to address his first rally in Chandigarh on March 23, the Shaheed Diwas (Martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh).
During his recent visit to Chandigarh, Modi had held a meeting with Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay Tandon to review the preparations of city party unit ahead of lok Sabha polls. At the meeting, Tandon had extended an invitation to Modi to address a rally in Chandigarh on March 23, which Modi has accepted. Sanjay Tandon, Chandigarh BJP president said, “The party’s prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has accepted our request and the rally schedule will be finalised soon.”
“This will be Modi’s first rally in Chandigarh. As of now, the rally’s date has been decided as March 23,” added Tandon. Modi, being the incharge of the party units of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh from the year 1996 to 1999, had looked after the election campaigns in the north region. And, it was during his tenure as the incharge of the party unit that the BJP witnessed its two victories in the lok Sabha elections from Chandigarh. BJP’s Satya Pal Jain had won from the city parliamentary seat in the years 1996 and 1998.