While almost all police personnel of Baragarh district are on their toes, BJP leaders and workers are busy making preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s February 21 visit to Bargarh. The 35-acre field, where Modi is scheduled to address farmers, is being levelled and cleaned now. BJP national general secretary and Odisha-in-charge Arun Singh and secretary Soudan Singh and Chhattisgarh Assembly Speaker Gourishankar Agrawal visited Bargarh on Saturday to oversee preparatory works. Party’s State president Basanta Panda, secretary Suresh Pujari, Ashwini Sarangi, Bargarh district president Narayan Sahu and D Muralikrishna are camping here to ensure the famers’ convention a grand success.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will arrive here on Sunday and hold discussions with frontal leaders. An exhibition of agriculture products would be held on February 20. Agriculture scientists will speak to farmers about different modern technological farming and instruct them how to undertake better farming and earn more.
Besides, an interaction programme between Union Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh and farmers would also be organised on the day.