India

Father of Patna blast accused promises to attend NaMo rally

Mukesh Ranjan

Kamaluddin Ansari, father of one of the Patna blast accused Imtiaaz Ansari, is looking forward to attend BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s rally to be held in Dhurwa on November 29.

The Sithio resident has also been invited by the BJP leaders on Sunday to attend Modi’s rally. Sithio village, which was recently identified by the National Investigating Agencies (NIA) as ‘Ranchi Module’ of Indian Muzahideen (IM), is just about five km away from the rally venue.

“BJP leaders today came to me and requested to take part in the rally of Narendra Modi. I told them that I will definitely go there if my health allows me on that day,” Kamaluddin said.

Senior BJP leaders — CP Singh, Ajay Maroo, Gama Singh, Kamal Khan — along with the party workers on Sunday launched an intensive door-to-door awareness drive among the villagers in Sithio to invite them formally for attending the rally.

Appealing to the villagers, Singh said that as the wave of development was started by Modi in the country, Sithio would not remain untouched of that.