Odisha: Amit Shah on the Odisha tour, participated in Tricolor Yatra with Dharmendra Pradhan in Cuttack

Posted on 8th Aug 2022 by rohit kumar

BJP is intensifying its campaign of south expansion. To give impetus to this, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan are on a tour of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. Both the leaders reached Bhubaneswar on Sunday night. On Monday morning, Shah offered prayers at the Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar. The walls of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack are lined with posters, banners, and placards of Shah. Amit Shah began his tour from the Lingaraj temple in Bhubaneswar on the last Monday of 'Shravan month'. After this both the leaders reached Cuttack to visit the birthplace of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. In Cuttack, both the leaders also participated in the tricolor yatra.

 

After this, the Home Minister will also do a road show from Oriya Bazar to Indoor Stadium. At the stadium, he will participate in the 75th-anniversary celebrations of Odia's daily newspaper 'Prajatantra'. This newspaper was founded by former Chief Minister Hare Krishna Mahtab. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will also participate in the program and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) workers have also made preparations for his grand welcome.

 

Will be involved in many programs

 

Amit Shah will hold a meeting of the core committee of the party's state unit at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in Cuttack. Later, he will release the Odisha edition of 'ModiET20: Dreams Meet Delivery', a book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tenure as the Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001 till the next 20 years. Shah will leave Odisha on Monday night.

 

BJP state unit president Sami Mohanty said that there is a lot of enthusiasm among the party workers in the state. When Shah leaves for Cuttack from Bhubaneswar on Monday, party workers will welcome him at various places. The ruling BJD and opposition Congress in Odisha are also keeping a close watch on Shah's visit. Amit Shah is visiting Bhubaneswar for the first time after becoming the Home Minister. Earlier he had reached Odisha during the 2019 elections. During this, he addressed a public meeting in Bhubaneswar.

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