Lok Sabha elections 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (March 15) visited to Kerala’s Pathanamthitta to campaign for the candidates of the BJP-led NDA in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The prime minister was be received by BJP state chief K Surendran and others.
The meeting was be attended by NDA's Lok Sabha candidates V Muraleedharan (Attingal), Anil K Antony (Pathanamthitta), Sobha Surendran (Alappuzha), and Baiju Kalasala (Mavelikkara).
Other leaders including Padmaja Venugopal, who recently joined the BJP after quitting the Congress, and state and local party leaders attended the meeting..
The police have put a ban on the flying of drones and comparable devices within a radius of 3 km of the Municipal Stadium and Pramadam Indoor Stadium in Pathanamthitta under Section 39 of the Kerala Police Act to ensure the Prime Minister's security.
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"BJP is encouraging the youth here. BJP candidate from Pathanamthitta, Anil K Antony is full zeal to serve you (the public). The politics of Kerala need this kind of freshness. This is the reason people of Kerala are also saying 'Abki baar 400 paar'," he said.
"The political parties which aim only to get power can never work for the welfare of people. LDF and UDF pretend to fight with each other here but in Delhi, they hug each other. Congress and the Left have looted Kerala. The people of Kerala have understood this," the Prime Minister added.
Change of plan
Earlier, the BJP had said that the Prime Minister would visit Pathanamthitta on March 17 to campaign for the NDA's candidates and Palakkad on March 15, however, the plan was changed later. Sources said that he will now visit Palakkad on March 19 where he is likely to hold a roadshow.
The official social media pages of the BJP’s Palakkad and Pathanamthitta district committees have announced PM Modi’s fourth and fifth visits to the state within a span of three months.
(With PTI inputs)
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