Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Odisha on Friday fo♌r the second time in less than a week and hold a roadshow here in the evening in support of BJP nominees ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly elections in the state, a party leader said.
He will lead the two-km roadshow from Sri Ram Mandir to Vani Vihar Chhak in Bhubaneswar where BJP's sitting MP Aparajita Sarangi is cont🧜esting.
The BJP fie♒lded Babu Singh, Jagannath Pradhan and Priyadarshi Mishra from 🔥three assembly seats in Bhubaneswar.
"The prime minister will hold the roadshow from 8 pm on Friday. He will stay the night at the Raj Bhavan," Odisha BJP vice-president Golak Mohapatra said.
This will be Modi’s second roadshow in the state in five years. PM Modi will also address three public ๊rallies – the first in Kandhamal at 9.30 am on Saturday, the second in Bolangir at 11.30 am and another in Bargarh at 1 pm.
The prime minister had visited the state on May 5 and held two election ra💯llies. Tight security arrangements have been made💟 for the roadshow and the poll rallies on Saturday, a police officer said.
The police deployed 55 platoons (each platoon co🍬mprises 30 personnel) and would impose traffic restrictions on the Janpath from 2 pm on Friday for the event, he said.
"Apart from over 1,500 police personnel, five ꧟DCP ranked officers, 10 additional DCPs, 27 ACPs, 41 inℱspectors and 180 sub-inspectors are being deployed for the PM’s roadshow," Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Police Commissioner Sanjeeb Panda said.
Three teams of special tactical unit (STU) and police personnel in plainclothes wil🎃l also be deployed during the event, he said. Bhubaneswar MP Sar🔥angi appealed to people to join the roadshow in large numbers.
