PM Modi’s road show in Chennai Tomorrow
As the campaigning fo the April 19 single phase polling for
Lok Sabha elections gained momentum.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving in Chennai on Tuesday to garner votes for the BJP-led NDA candidates.
Modi will be holding a road show tomorrow evening, top BJP sources told UNI on Monday.
Tight security arrangements have been made in view of Modi’s visit to the city. Modi, who will be arriving around evening tomorrow, will start the road show at the T.Nagar area.
He will be travelling in an open jeep along with the contesting candidates, the sources said.
He will be canvassing for the BJP candidates in all the three Chennai constituencies.
Chennai South, Chennai Central and Chennai North.
While the BJP has fielded former Telangana Governor and Puducherry Lt. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, who had returned to active politice after resigning her gubernatorial posts, from South Chennai, BJP’s Vinod Selvam and Legal Wing leader Paul Kanagaraj are the candidates from the Central Chennai and North
Chennai respectively.
After his brief Chennai visit, Modi is also likely to visit other districts for electioneering. though an official confirmation is awaited.
It is likely in Vellore and Kanniyakumari, besides Coimbatore, where the BJP has a good following in the western belt of the state forming part of the Kongu region.
A.C.Shanmugham of NJP an ally of BJP, is contesting in Vellore, while former Union Minister and
senior BJP leader Pon Radhakrishnan and BJP State President K.Annamalai are contesting from Kanniyakumari and Coimbatore respectively.
Meanwhile, police have made elaborate security arrangements in view of Modi’s visit.