Achi news desk-
PM Modi in Jabalpur today, to kickstart BJP’s poll campaign in MP
Buffalo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the star campaigner of the ruling BJP, will kick off the BJP’s campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh by addressing his first public rally in Jabalpur, after a roadshow in the city later on Sunday evening.
More than 3,000 policemen under the supervision of over a dozen IPS officers were deployed at Prime Minister Modi’s place for the roadshows to seek voter support for BJP’s debutant Lok Sabha candidate from Jabalpur, Ashish Dubh.
Security was beefed up hours before the Prime Minister’s visit, as an area around 15 km from the show venue was declared a no-fly zone until 8:00 pm on Sunday. A one-km long stretch designated for the roadshow was decorated with lights and flowers.
Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is also responsible for the Maha Kaushal Lok Sabha cluster in Madhya Pradesh, along with his cabinet colleague and four-time MP from Jabalpur, Rakesh Singh, distributed ‘akshat’ (rice grain mixed with turmeric and flowers) to the locals and invited them to welcome the Prime Minister Modi at the door of their house.
Three of the six Lok Sabha constituencies of Madhya Pradesh to be polled on April 19 are from the Mahakaushal cluster – Chindwara, Jabalpur, Balghat, Shahdol, Siddhi and Mandla.
PWD Minister Rakesh Singh, who took over the Jabalpur Lok Sabha constituency from BJP MP and former MP Jayashree Banerjee in 2004, has won four consecutive elections maintaining the party’s winning streak in Jabalpur since 1996. Banerjee, a long-time graduate of the University of Allahabad and Jannah. A politician, she is the mother-in-law of BJP president JP Nadda.
Rakesh Singh defeated senior lawyer and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Vivek Tankha twice in 2014 and 2019. He also headed the MP BJP unit during the 2018 state assembly elections. This time the BJP made Ashish Dove its candidate against Dinesh Yadav of the Congress.
