India

PM: Organise cultural, sports events to ‘identify talents’

PNS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who held a breakfast meeting with BJP Members of Parliament from five Southern States on Thursday asked them to organise cultural,  sports and other events in their constituencies to "identify talents" and to have constant outreach  with the people like a common man.

He also suggested that they visit the Kashi-Vishwanath Corridor that was inaugurated on Monday and experience its "glory." Members from  Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala interacted with Modi who had similar interaction last week  with the BJP MPs from the North-East region.

The Prime Minister is  understood to have conveyed that MPs should be avoiding airport lounge and instead stand in queue , meet people and behave  like a common man. He encouraged them to be proactive in their areas while assuring that he was there   to win  elections.

The newly inaugurated Kashi-Vishwanath corridor figured prominently in the meeting, sources said.

 “The glory and the divinity of Kashi can only be experienced by visiting it," he is said to have told  the MPs.

Besides this, the Prime Minister asked MPs to discover talents in different fields by organising functions and programs in their respective constituencies and bring them to the notice of the government. identifying talent in their constituencies. Modi also playfully said to have told the MPs to smile and not wear a frown on their faces.