Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be visiting the City of Nawabs for two days starting June 20 to attend International Yoga Day function to be held with much fanfare on June 21.
Besdies, the PM will attend a couple of official programmes and inaugurate some projects but officials were circumspect whether he would inaugurate the first commercial run of lucknow Metro Rail as the lMRC has not got clearance from the Railway Ministry.
Official sources said in lucknow on Monday that Modi will arrive in lucknow around 3.30 pm on June 20 and will go to the new building of CDRI in Jankipuram by chopper and inaugurate the new building which has been pending for more than three years.
The PM will then go to Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) where he would inaugurate a museum which is house to bronze statues of 11 renowned scientists. later, Modi will meet students and address them. From AKTU, the Prime Minister will come to Raj Bhawan.
On the next day, the PM will reach Rama Bai ground at 6 am for a one-hour Yoga session to mark International Yoga Day. Modi will do Yoga along with several dignitaries, including Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev besides Union and state ministers and over 55,000 participants.
later, the PM would leave for New Delhi around 12.30 pm.