Elaborate security arrangements have been made in Ghazipur where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra aheadof the Assembly polls and address a public meeting on Monday.
Officers and personnel of Special Protection Group (SPG) have taken over the security of ITI campus where the rally, likely to be attended by around 2 lakh people, would be held.
Union minister of State for Telecommunications and Railways and local MP, Manoj Sinha said that the rally would be historic. “People from neighbouring districts will participate in the rally and they have started reaching Ghazipur,” he said.
“There is enthusiasm among the masses. They want to see the Prime Minister and they arecoming on their own. We are expecting a crowd of over 2 lakh people,” Sinha told ‘The Pioneer’ over telephone.
PM Modi would be staying in the city for about two hours and launch projects worth over Rs 2000 crores, that include foundation laying of a new rail and road bridge over Ganga connecting Tarighat and Mau. Besides the PM will also flag off the new Ghazipur- Kolkata Shabdbhedi Express train.
UP minister Ram Govind Choudhury would be the representative of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav during the programme.
This will be the first of the six regional rallies to be addressed by Modi during the ongoing four Parivartan yatras. On December 24. the PM will address a big rally in lucknow after atthe conclusion of the four yatras.
After PM’s rally on Monday, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav would also launch his poll campaign from the same ground on November 23. Ghazipur and Mau are the stronghold of Qaumi Ekta Dal (QED) led by don-turned-politician Mokhtar Ansari and the outfit had recently merged with the SP.