Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to visit his poll-bound home-State Gujarat thrice in a span of 20 days. Modi will arrive at Ahmedabad on September 13 along with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe to launch much talked about bullet train project. Modi and Abe will be in the State for two days.
Apart from the stone-laying ceremony of the Rs 1 lakh crore Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project, both the Prime Ministers will remain present for the inauguration of the International Buddhist Festival as well a series of other functions.
Both leaders will also visit Modi’s birthplace Vadnagar where recently a Buddhist site excavated.
To mark the Japanese President’s visit, picturesque Sabarmati Riverfront will be decked up the way it was decorated during the visit of Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2015.
Modi will again visit Gujarat on his 68th birthday on September 17 to dedicate the Sardar Sarovar Dam constructed on River Narmada to the people by offering Puja. He will also address a huge public rally on the same day at central Gujarat town Dabhoi. He is also likely to meet his nonagenarian mother Hira Ba during the visit to seek her blessings on his birthday.
Sources in Gujarat BJP said the PM is likely to visit Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace Porbandar on October 2 to mark Mahatma’s 148th birth anniversary.
Modi will take part in an all religion prayer meeting at ‘Kirti Mandir’ — the house where Mahatma was born.
Though itinerary for all the three visits of Prime Minister yet to be finalised, but according to the sources, Modi would also address a public meeting at Porbandar. He would remain present in the foundation stone laying ceremony of fishing harbour too.